Month: September 2018

WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Alfred Siboleka on Monday dismissed an application by Stockley Kauejao, 43, and Afas Kamutjemo, 40, for their discharge on the murder charges they face after the State closed its case.

OKANGUATI - The executive chairperson of the National Youth Council (NYC) Mandela Kapere has called for an open-minded debate on the complex issue of abortion, which is illegally prevalent in the country, especially among the youth.

SESFONTEIN - The community of Sesfontein settlement in the Kunene Region recently got their prayers answered when a new clinic and health centre finally opened its doors to the public after decades of waiting.

WINDHOEK - Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development Minister Tjekero Tweya has revealed that Indonesia expressed keen interest in importing Namibian beef to the Asian nation.

WINDHOEK - A 19-year-old woman tried to save a man who collapsed next to her house after he was stabbed allegedly by an ex-girlfriend at an Okuryangava shebeen on Friday evening.

OSHAKATI – “It was painful and I was screaming, but he told me to keep quiet or else he would beat me,” a five-year-old boy from one of Oshakati’s informal settlements described the chilling details of the day he was allegedly sodomised by an older boy from the same location.

WINDHOEK - A Namibian Central Intelligence Service (NCIS) senior official facing fraud and corruption charges of N$17 million was found dead in his vehicle next to the Daan Viljoen road yesterday morning.

WINDHOEK - Two Namibian models have nothing but praise for Namibian Ambassador to Ghana, Charles Josob, who rescued them from Benin where they say they endured untold sufferings.  

WINDHOEK - Higher education minister Dr Itah Kandjii-Murangi has ordered the Namibia Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) to reinstate, with immediate effect, over 40 employees that it recently retrenched.