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KATIMA MULILO – The CEO of Katima Mulilo Town Council, Raphael Liswaniso, says the bad roads at the town are a result of not having quality gravel in the region.

KEETMANSHOOP - !Nami#Nus councillor Susan Ndjaleka says there are a lot of potential opportunities lying idle that could be utilised optimally for the benefit of the constituency’s inhabitants. 

The long-awaited Divorce Bill, which will allow couples to separate without having to prove instances of adultery and indiscretion before a divorce can be granted, will be tabled in the National Assembly in July this year.

WALVIS BAY – The disappearance of Hangana Seafood skipper Carlo Gordon is an unsolved mystery that still baffles family and friends one year later. 

Finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi yesterday emphasised that Air Namibia’s current debt was unsustainable and would jeopardise the national economic recovery plan that the government is currently seized with. 

A witness in the double murder trial of former Namibia Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) fitter and turner instructor Ernst Lichtenstrasser yesterday told the High Court she saw a white pickup driven by a white man on the grounds of the institution on the morning of the shootings.

Affirmative Repositioning movement leader Dimbulukweni Nauyoma says members of the public should make a distinction between pronouncements made by Job Amupanda as Windhoek mayor and comments made in his capacity as an AR activist. 

ONGWEDIVA - Northern businessman Sindano Hango was yesterday convicted of rape in the Oshakati High Court after the State successfully appealed against his acquittal last year. 

ONGWEDIVA - Human remains were discovered on Sunday at Uushapi cattle post in the Okahao constituency, the police reported.

TSUMEB – At the ripe age of 25, Anmire Garises has surprised all and sundry to prevail as the deputy mayor of Tsumeb following last year’s local authority elections.