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ONDANGWA - Although the former Rally for Democracy and Progress secretary in Ohangwena Region Timo Shikongo prophesied a ‘mass resignation’ from RDP on Monday, a day later only one person had tendered a resignation at his office.

WINDHOEK - Namibian police Inspector-General Sebastian Ndeitunga has called on Okakarara residents to lay complaints against the police, should they feel distressed by the police’s action on the commotion that resulted in the mass arrest of 39 members of the public over the weekend.

WINDHOEK - Given the massive volumes of trucks and their heavy cargoes that utilise the Walvis Bay Corridor between the port of Walvis Bay and Zambia, the Walvis Bay Corridor Group (WBCG) has reiterated the great importance of the costly maintenance of Namibia’s roads.

WINDHOEK - The 38th SADC Heads of State and Government Summit in Namibia will this week pass its verdict on the mooted establishment of the SADC University of Transformation.

WINDHOEK - Namibia is leading the way with regard to women representation in local government from 42 percent to 48 percent in the last nine years, according to the newly launched SADC Gender Protocol Barometer.

WINDHOEK - The Minister of Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development, Tjekero Tweya, has dismissed perceptions by some critics that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), recently ratified by Namibia, will kill the already struggling infant industries in the country.

WINDHOEK – Namibia’s senior netball team, the Desert Jewels, will today take to the courts to confront East African nation Uganda for their opening match of the Africa Netball World Cup qualifiers, which officially kicked late yesterday.

ǀAEǁGAMS – Hoa !Hūbaisi ǂUrusib ǂNûiǂgās (WHO) ge ǀhûhâsigu khoena !khâikhom tsî ge mî hepatitis !nāsa khoena HIVs xoxoros hîa AIDSa ra !aromas xa ra tsâǀkhāsa. Hoa !Hūbaisi Hepatitis Tsēsa ǂâiǂâisens hîa kurikorobe 28 ǂKhoesaob dis air a tsēdīhes tawab gere gowaǀîsa mā soab aib ge Dr Petrus Mhatab WHOs dib age mî “nē !gomsib ge HIVs xa a kai ­îb ǂgui khoena ra tsâǀkhā amaga.”

WINDHOEK - Small scale producers must make use of the government’s support programmes to increase their cereal and horticulture production to ensure national and household food security, encourages Agriculture, Water and Forestry Deputy Minister, Anna Shiweda.

WINDHOEK - There must be a restitution of ancestral land rights for those Namibians who lost land because of colonial dispossession and genocide, states the Ovaherero Traditional Authority in its position paper on land prepared in anticipation of the Second National Land Conference scheduled for October 1-5.