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A University of Namibia graduate is surviving on the generosity of his neighbours after he gave up his job due to Spinocerebellar ataxia. 

The Namibian Police said it does not condone the unbecoming conduct of its members which tends to attract civil claims against the force.

Oil exploration company, Red Soil Energy and Mineral Exploration, has accused the mines ministry of illegally declining its application to favour “politically connected people”.

The Southern African Development Community extraordinary troika summit of heads of state and government yesterday discussed the political and security situations in the region.

Finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi yesterday clarified that government resolved to use a portion of its expenditure in redressing socio-economic imbalances through the granting of preferential treatment or preferences in the public procurement system. 

The country’s biggest telecommunications company, MTC, yesterday clarified that gathering customers’ biometric information during SIM card registration should not cause concern. 

Two police officers who stand accused of the murder of Ellestee Plaatjie, were denied bail in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court earlier this week.

A man who was convicted of culpable homicide for stabbing another man once in the chest causing his death was sentenced to an effective five years in jail yesterday morning by regional magistrate Vanessa Stanley.