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A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a toilet at an Omuthiya clinic last week Wednesday during lunch hour in what seemed to have been an arranged meet-up.

Safety and security minister Albert Kawana last week said the government has deployed 3 000 police officers, 2 500 military personnel, 300 correctional officers and 131 vehicles to man the 10 partial lockdown zones.

The thunderous indictment and sentencing of former South African president Jacob Zuma to 15 months behind bars has been received with mixed emotions the world over, but one message is supreme, that no one is above the law, local pundits say. 

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.