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The German government has refused to budge to criticism that alongside their Namibian counterpart, they have violated the rights of Nama and Ovaherero communities by excluding them from genocide talks.

Nedbank Namibia employees yesterday showed their dissatisfaction, frustration and disappointment with the current state of affairs at the company through an hour-long peaceful demonstration in the capital.

Anatolia Petrus (29) and Rauha Pinhas (33) were denied bail during their first court appearance in Oshakati Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

National Planning Commission director general Obeth Kandjoze, who is also Namibia’s green hydrogen (GH) council chairperson, has made it clear the GH project is an executive project.

A potion brewed by a self-proclaimed prophet using deadly tree roots claimed the lives of two women in the Kavango East region on Wednesday. The two were part of a group of four women who consumed the yet-unidentified brew. Two of the group survived.

The thirst of the multitude of needy residents of Sibbinda who have faced severe shortages of clean water since independence will soon be quenched.

The Ovambanderu community will pay homage to their fallen hero, Chief Kahimemua Nguvauva, also known as ‘Hiakungairi’, this weekend in the Garden Town of Okahandja. 

Farmers in the Omaheke region will be amongst those to benefit from government’s livestock support programme, which will see farmers receiving livestock marketing incentives, transport subsidies to and from grazing areas, as well as subsidies for leasing grazing areas. 

Vivo Energy and the City of Windhoek yesterday joined forces as they launched the annual Vivo Energy Windhoek Marathon, which will take place next month in the capital.

One of Namibia’s exciting upcoming boxers Mateus Heita is scheduled to fight in Zimbabwe next month.