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Speaker of the National Assembly Peter Katjavivi has reminded members of parliament of their constitutional mandate of empowering people as elected representatives. 

The Oshakati Town Council has urged residents to pay their water bills as council has run into debt with bulk water supplier NamWater.

Otja-Kapuuo peer group president Asser Mujazu said the late Ovaherero Paramount Chief Advocate Vekuii Rukoro will be recognised for his firm moral stance on a wide range of contemporary issues, driven by a desire to do the best for his people and surrounding communities. 

Namibia has ordered more Covid-19 vaccines with some expected to arrive within the next 10 days, while health authorities will divert doses from areas where uptake is slow to parts such as the coast and Windhoek where demand is high.

The Oranjemund Town Council (OTC) said it is disappointed in the way the national diamond company, Namdeb, is negotiating as the two entities dispute the payment of occupational rent at the diamond town. 

President Hage Geingob yesterday paid tribute to Namibia’s special envoy to the Nama-Ovaherero genocide reparations negotiations, Zed Ngavirue, describing him as a highly distinguished son of the country.

Former Swapo secretary general and ex-Cabinet minister Ngarikutuke Tjiriange, who died suddenly on Wednesday evening, leaves behind an indelible footprint of service, President Hage Geingob has said. 

Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula yesterday said there would be no shortage of oxygen in state hospitals for at least the next three months as the problem has been dealt with successfully. 

At the age of five, I fractured my upper arm. My mother took me to the pool for physio. Then her friend June Owen-Smith took me under her supervision and made me swim my first gala at age 6. 

Omutwe wopolifi yaNamibia komatanga Lieutenant General Sebastian Ndeitunga ota ti okwa didilikwa oshiwana itashi li ufa komilandu doCovid19 pefimbo eli lomalinyengo ovanhu a ngabekwa moshilongo.