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The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) is calling on all former members who have left employment due to retirement, resignation, ill-health, disability, or retrenchment, and who have not claimed or received their pension benefits from the fund.

Buoyed by the massive turnout at a fully packed Olufuko Centre in Outapi, President Hage Geingob yesterday said after 33 years of sustained progress, there is still work to be done for the country to achieve its goals.

The youth protest against unemployment, which was supposed to take place yesterday in Windhoek, has resulted in the arrest of social justice activists Michael Amushelelo and Dimbulukeni Nauyoma as well as Parliamentarian Inna Hengari. 

Five judges of the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Windhoek High Court was wrong when it ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration to grant citizenship to the child of same-sex couple Phillip Lühl and partner Guillermo Delgado, who hails from Mexico.

Four minor girls were allegedly raped in different incidents last week. The youngest was seven years old while the oldest was 15.

President Hage Geingob will soon lead a team to the Leonardville area, where a Russian company hopes to extract uranium, to listen to all concerned parties and debate on the controversial mining operations in the area. 

The Ministry of Home, Affairs, Immigration Safety and Security concluded its ID duplicate rollout in the Zambezi region last Friday.

The Division of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare regional head in the Kavango East, Benedikta Kamunoko, recently called on the public, to fight against the use of technology to objectify and abuse women. 

The inaccessibility of the Orokave village in the Epupa constituency of the Kunene region is forcing the residents to bury their dead in an undignified way, which they were warned is illegal.