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WINDHOEK - Right in the middle of the silver corrugated iron sheet shacks at the sprawling informal settlement of Havana is a purple structure that catches the eye at first sight.

WINDHOEK - The wife of a man accused of beating a woman to death in Windhoek’s Otjomuise location testified in her husband’s defence yesterday in the Windhoek High Court before Judge Alfred Siboleka.
Margaret Gawaxab confirmed what Elwen Gawaxab has been saying through his privately funded lawyer, Mbanga Siyomunji, that he had on his work clothes, a green trouser and shirt when he left their house the previous evening and that he still had the same clothes on when he arrived home early the next morning, contrary to the evidence of State witnesses that he had put on blue jeans and a white shirt.

WINDHOEK - A former senior police officer of the Namibian Police Force, accused of shooting to death a teenager, yesterday claimed the fatal shot he fired happened during a struggle for the gun. He said this when he testified in his own defence in the Windhoek High Court at the Windhoek Prison Facility before Judge Dinah Usiku.

SWAKOPMUND - The Swakopmund Municipality had to temporarily suspend its newly installed parking system in town following a huge public outcry over the system that has been described a nuisance.
The system has been operational for about two weeks now but was criticised by residents who said that the system was a nuisance and defeated the whole purpose it was created for.

WINDHOEK - The International Peace Youth Group (IPYG), in collaboration with the National Youth Council of Namibia and the Namibia Youth Development Organisation, are spearheading the “We Are One” intergenerational dialogue.

WINDHOEK - Two churches have sprung to the aid of a destitute Babylon father who begs on the streets to raise his daughter who suffers from a chronic illness.

SWAKOPMUND - Some landless residents of Henties Bay have threatened to grab land today if their demands for residential land are not met.

RUNDU - New Era was reliably informed that by Monday this week seven confirmed cases of the hepatitis E virus were recorded in the Rundu district.

WINDHOEK - The Ministry of Environment and Tourism says some of the demands made by the Namibia Tourism Board (NTB) staff, during a peaceful demonstration earlier last month are incomprehensible, as some may require money and this can only be done as and when the funds are available.

WINDHOEK - Leader of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) and Member of Parliament (MP), McHenry Venaani has been elected as the Chairperson of the Trade, Custom and Immigration Committee of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP).