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A former senior police officer attached to the Women and Child Protection Unit in Keetmanshoop, is still waiting for his psychological evaluation by a private psychiatrist.

The Namibia Bus and Taxi Association has been ordered by the High Court to vacate the offices on a piece of land they have operated on for over two decades. 

The National Fishing Corporation of Namibia is fighting to rid itself of several agreements that were concluded by some of the key figures in the ongoing multi-million-dollar Fishrot corruption case. 

The Namibian Employers’ Federation (NEF) is alarmed and shocked to find out that changes to the Affirmative Action (Employment) Act of 1998 were made and already enacted without due diligence and proper consultation with the employers’ association, contrary to the tripartite arrangement in place. 

Five police officers and a park ranger were hospitalised after lightning struck their camp in the Bwabwata National Park. The lightning also killed a man at Ngaraunda farm in the Ndiyona constituency. 

Fifteen out of 52 local authorities and three regional councils do not have substantive CEOs and chief regional officers due to what is becoming a disturbing trend of unprocedural appointments and suspensions.

A young woman from Walvis Bay ended her life by drowning at Independence beach early yesterday morning.

The Tsumeb community is still advised to use boiled water after the town’s water supply was recently deemed unfit for human consumption, based on a microbiological quality assessment. 

Teachers at Mburu-uru Primary School in the Katji-na-katji circuit of the Kavango West region demonstrated that they are substitute parents to their learners, as out of the spirit of Ubuntu, they are accommodating learners in their sleeping rooms due to a lack of accommodation facilities.