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The Walvis Bay town council on Thursday tabled a N$609 million capital budget for the 2023/2024 financial year.

The ongoing tussle over whom to provide ground-handling services at Hosea Kutako International Airport is far from over.

A 33-year-old man who admitted that he strangled his police officer girlfriend and mother of his two young children to death in October 2021, was sentenced to an effective 28 years imprisonment last Wednesday by Windhoek High Court Christi Liebenberg.

Windhoek High Court Judge Herman January on Friday convicted a resident of Otjimbingwe in the Erongo region on three counts of rape and two counts of common assault. 

A health team has been deployed to the Omalapapa village of the Ohangwena region, where members of the San community residing there have been battling scabies for the past two months.

Haipanda Simbungu, who on Tuesday last week turned himself in at the Ncaute police station after allegedly slaying his daughter Maria Isoni Simbungu earlier that same day, has been denied bail by the Rundu Magistrate’s Court.

The head of the referee department at the Namibia Football Association (NFA), Absalom Goseb, has revealed they are thoroughly working hard to uncover the truth behind the food poisoning incident involving local referees. 

Cricket Namibia (CN) has won three international awards from International Cricket Council (ICC) for the year 2023.

 A dark cloud has befallen the culturally proud close knit residents of Rehoboth following the untimely death of rugby coach Lesley Bougard, aged 70. A qualified accountant, Bougard has served Namibian rugby with distinction during his tenure as an astute mentor for the national seven’s team. 

The second edition of the Athletics Namibia Leg 8 Grand Prix Open Championship is taking place today at Gobabis’ Legare Stadium in the Omaheke region.