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The higher education ministry has promised to finally release the list of successful students who had applied for funding through the Namibian Students Financial Assistance Fund for the 2021 academic year. 

The Keetmanshoop municipality recently erected 30 mobile stands for informal traders at the central and monument park sites in town as part of Covid-19 relief measures. 

Swapo and Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) councillors at Oshakati are at loggerheads after the ruling party rejected the IPC’s motion for council to set up a brick-making factory and to restrict individuals from making bricks at the town.

A 30-year-old man was allegedly stabbed to death by his friend after a cell phone row on Saturday evening at Ondjondjo in the Okatana constituency of the Oshana region. The victim was killed during curfew hours whilst they were having drinks at a shebeen.

An employee of D&M Rail Construction died while two others were seriously injured on Thursday afternoon after a wall fell on them. 

Namibia’s three-time Olympian and chairperson of the country’s Athletes Commission, Gaby Ahrens, says the withdrawal of sprinters Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi from the 400m list of the upcoming Tokyo Olympics by World Athletics should not be viewed as a racial attack on the personae of African athletes. 

The Oshakati Town Council says it will refund the N$2.5 million that was paid to them by Mouse Properties Ninety Eight for the purchase of erf 1342, or what is popularly known as Omatala.

The Ovaherero Traditional Authority (OTA) overturned the planned burial of the late Mburumba Kerina at the Ovaherero Burial Shrine, arguing that the site is reserved for paramount chiefs.

Namibian authorities are still waiting to hear if the highly contagious Delta variant is present in the country.

President Hage Geingob has described the late former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda as a statesman par excellence.