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Oshikoto regional governor Penda ya Ndakolo has urged the youth to show up in big numbers for the commemoration of Heroes’ Day.

Johannes Kalumbu (57), a craftsman from Onhokolo village in the Omusati region, is seeking assistance from the government and the business community to invest in his dream.

Popular Democratic Movement leader McHenry Venaani has hailed former Opuwo town councillor, the late Katahunda Matundu, as a hero to whom the PDM owes its existence.

Opuwo service station workers are up in arms over their working conditions, which they described as unbearable and “slave-like”.

A 23-year-old man who was convicted last week of killing his aunt by whipping her with a homemade donkey leash and kicking her in Kavango West, was on Tuesday sentenced to 18 years imprisonment.

A 40-year-old man who went on a shooting rampage at the Omutundungu village in June 2014 which saw the loss of one life and several injuries, was sentenced to an effective 25
years imprisonment last week.

The German government is not serious about genuinely atoning for its colonial crimes, Bundestag member Sevim Dağdelen has said.

Despite the 2022 ruling by the Kasane Magistrate’s Court in Botswana in favour of that country’s defence force, Kongola councillor Bennety Busihu questioned Namibia’s stance to seek fair justice in the killing of the local fishermen.

The National Council is set to splash at least N$189 000 on the spouses of its members for a five-day training on how to behave, if a leaked internal memo seen by this reporter is anything to go by. 

Residents of the mining town of Arandis are urged to give their full cooperation to enumerators, who will be knocking at their doors this week for a local census by the town council.