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GOBABIS – Being one of the governor’s initiatives aimed at fighting unemployment, which is rife especially amongst the youth in the region, the Omaheke incubation hub has taken its first step towards achieving this goal. 

There was surprise and disillusion all round when Namibia’s president pinned a figure on Germany’s compensation offer for colonial-era genocide - then rejected it.

The Khomas Regional Council says it has so far managed to provide safe water to 28 out of 31 sites identified in the region. 

The health ministry has so far spent about N$51 million on the quarantining and isolation of Covid-19 patients since March this year. 

Kabbe South constituency councillor John Likando has bemoaned the Electoral Commission of Namibia’s decision to reduce the number of supplementary registration points for the upcoming regional council and local authority elections in his area of jurisdiction to only two.

OMUTHIYA - The Affirmative Repositioning movement has appealed to the ministry of safety and security to consider setting up a police station at Tsumeb’s Kuvukiland. 

Local forex traders Michael Amushelelo and Gregorie Cloete suffered a legal blow yesterday in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court after the presiding officer dismissed their application to provisionally withdraw their case from the court’s roll.

ONGWEDIVA – The University of Namibia’s Hifikepunye Pohamba Campus has warned the residents of the New Reception location against vandalism of its fence following two fires at the campus this week.

“We were hoping to rebuild our business hence going back to stage 3 is like a slap in the face. Why should we be bottled up in the same category as Windhoek. They operated while we were in stage two,”

According to Shikerete, this meeting could have led to the royal factions of Kandambo and Katiku deciding on the way forward as to who should be named the new Hompa.