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The government has refuted widespread allegations that no consultation took place with the Zambezi inhabitants regarding the signed Namibia-Botswana Boundary Treaty of 2018.

TransNamib’s dire financial state, ageing infrastructure and equipment as well as the government’s inability to capitalise it has left the country’s railway company limping from one disaster to the next.   

The chairperson of the National Arts Council of Namibia (NACN) Patrick Sam has acknowledged incidents of maladministration, citing the lack of capacity and human resources and rubbishing allegations of corruption at the council.

Russian national Alexander Krylof (57) and his Namibian counterpart Anna Katrina Engelbrecht (29), who admitted he had intercourse with at least five under-aged girls during 2017 but denied he raped any of them, want the court to dismiss the charges against them.

Members of the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN) in Ongwediva in the Oshana region last week received plots to build their houses.

A man, who was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment in 2019 for stabbing his girlfriend and mother of his now 10-year-old daughter 27 times with several knives in front of her then four-year-old son, wants to appeal his sentence.

The family of 29-year-old Quitenline Bonnita Eixas, who was brutally raped and murdered in the early morning hours of Sunday, 23 May 2021, has urged members of the public to assist the police in tracing the suspect.

After a hiatus of two weeks, teams in the Namibia Premier Football League (NPFL) will return to action this weekend and will see matches taking place in Windhoek and at the southern town of Keetmanshoop.

Namibia’s senior netball team head coach Julene Meyer has expressed concern about the lack of intensity in the recently-launched MTC Namibia Netball Premier League (NNPL), saying teams should improve their competitiveness.

Having started his flawless football journey with uncompromising giant killers Katutura outfit, Hungry Lions Football Club, famously known as ‘The Brave Lions of Judah’, former Black Africa Football Club tough-as-steak fullback Asia Katjeuru Tjetjinda, will go down in history as one of the most underrated defenders of his generation.