OMBOTO - As a result of poor infrastructures, learners and teachers at Omboto Combined School who are conducting lessons under filthy old makeshifts are from time to time being terrorised by snakes slithering into their classrooms causing chaos and disrupting classes.
Adult educators could boycott literacy week
WINDHOEK - A group of unhappy adult education practitioners who yesterday staged a peaceful demonstration at government park over some pending issues relating to their wellbeing have threatened that they will not participating on any official organised events of Literacy Week celebration today.
Diergaardt throws in towel as acting //Kharas CRO
KEETMANSHOOP - The position for acting Chief Regional Officer at //Kharas has become a poisoned chalice and is again vacant after Benedictus Diergaardt became the latest official to resign, when he threw in the towel last Friday after he was reportedly frustrated by ineffectual councillors.
Shimbulu lands SADC leadership role
ONGWEDIVA - President of the Association of Local Authorities in Namibia (ALAN) Katrina Shimbulu will chair the REFELA in SADC over the next three years.
Tribal Chief’s annual conference starts Monday
WINDHOEK - Fifty-one recognised chiefs with their 306 senior traditional councillors and 306 junior traditional councillors from all over the country will on Monday convene at a local hotel in Windhoek for a five-day annual conference.
Bail hearing for Neuaka resumes today
WINDHOEK - The bail hearing of Johannes Neuaka, who stands accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child will resume today.
Traditional leaders speak out
WINDHOEK – The Council of Traditional Leaders has denounced what it termed the “violent and systemic targeting, crimilisation, intimidation, torture and killing of women in Namibia”.
Psychiatric evaluation stalls murder trial
WINDHOEK - Mental evaluation for a woman who stands accused of killing her 70-year-old lover is yet to be conducted nearly five months after the incident.
Police reward for Cheryl murder increase to N$100 000
WINDHOEK - The reward for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrator(s) in the murder of nine-year-old Cheryl Avihe Ujaha was increased to N$100 000.
“I will always hate you” – rape victim tells accused
WINDHOEK - “For the rest of my life I will always carry hatred towards you until the day I know you are in the grave,” a very emotional woman, who may not be named to protect her identity, told the man accused of sexually violating her in 2012 at his court hearing yesterday.