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ONGWEDIVA – In the quest to eliminate open defecation, the Elim constituency office on Wednesday handed over 41 toilets to benefit at least 500 people at Ontanga village.

National Assembly members this week were mostly in support of the revised Orange-Senqu Watercourse Commission (Orasecom) Agreement following a motion tabled by agriculture, water and land reform minister Calle Schlettwein in which he asked lawmakers for endorsement of the new plan. 

President Hage Geingob is expected to participate in next week’s virtual meeting of the 75th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly (UNGA). 

A number of children at Mix settlement, which is situated north of Windhoek, are missing out on education due to the absence of a school at the settlement.

KEETMANSHOOP— //Kharas regional council chairperson Jan Scholtz said the daily administrative and political functioning of the Keetmanshoop Urban constituency office has not been hampered since the death of councillor Maxie Minnaar. 

ONGWEDIVA - President Hage Geingob has honoured the first governor of Oshana region and struggle stalwart Silvanus Vatuva with an official funeral. 

The Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement this week named current Student Union of Namibia (SUN) president Simon Kanepolo Amunime as its spokesperson with immediate effect.

KEETMANSHOOP – As part of its core objective to assist vulnerable members of the community, the Keetmanshoop Mayor’s Trust recently handed over school uniforms, beddings, educational materials school children, needy parents and the town’s Covid-19 isolation centre. 

More than 1 000 residents of Mix settlement, situated north of Windhoek, yesterday received land occupation acknowledgement certificates from the Minister of Rural and Urban Development, Erastus Uutoni. 

Land Activist Dimbulukeni Nauyoma has dragged the government and attorney general to court to get the Squatters Proclamation AG, 21 of 1985, repealed.