Two brothers employed at a farm in the Otjozondjupa region died after a car they had allegedly stolen to go purchase alcohol overturned on Friday night on the Hochfeld-Osire road. A passerby, who spotted a damaged vehicle along the gravel road 40km from Osire near Farm Nooitgedag, discovered the bodies of the two brothers around 20h00.
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2020-04-282024-04-30Front Page News
African swine fever kills 61 pigs
Health authorities in Omusati yesterday said 61 pigs have died from African swine fever following an outbreak in the region, affecting nearly 200 animals. Omusati State veterinarian Josephat Peter confirmed the outbreak, saying a local farmer reported the first case on 17 March.
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2020-04-282024-04-30Front Page News
Govt to airlift over 200 stranded in SA
Government will evacuate over 200 citizens from neighbouring South Africa, where confirmed Covid-19 cases have hit over 4 500 and 87 deaths as at yesterday afternoon. Air Namibia will carry out the mission, its spokesperson Paul Nakawa confirmed yesterday.
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2020-04-282024-06-18Crime and Courts
Kandjii out on bail of N$3 000
Katutura Central constituency councillor Ambrosius Kandjii, who on Friday was arrested for assualt, pointing of a firearm, malicious damage to property and assualt by threat, was yesterday granted bail of N$3 000.
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2020-04-282024-04-30Front Page News
Global cooperation needed – Zhang
Chinese ambassador Zhang Yiming says global cooperation and not stigmatisation of some countries is needed to help the world to overcome the pandemic that has claimed over 200 000 lives.
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2020-04-282024-05-07National
Opposition want to chair Parly committees
Opposition leaders in the National Assembly are saying the ruling Swapo party should not be allowed to chair eight out of the nine parliamentary steering committees alone, if the Legislature is serious about its oversight function.
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2020-04-282024-05-07National
Mariental vendors feel virus pinch
Informal traders in Mariental are finding it hard to make ends meet due to the national Covid-19 lockdown.
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2020-04-282024-05-07National
Omaheke troubled by lack of ICU facilities
GOBABIS – The Omaheke regional leadership has expressed concern about the lack of an intensive care unit (ICU) facility in the region, despite the Covid-19 virus that has killed over 205 000 globally.
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2020-04-282024-06-18Crime and Courts
Namandje invokes attorney-client privilege
Prominent Windhoek based lawyer Sisa Namandje has hit back at the Law Society of Namibia (LSN), saying it merely pays lip service to the established principle of attorney-client privilege in its search to tarnish his reputation.
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2020-04-282024-05-07National
Geingob observes SA Freedom Day
President Hage Geingob yesterday sent a massage of sympathy to President Cyril Ramaphosa over coronavirus as South Africans marked the liberation of that neighbouring country and its people from a long period of colonialism and apartheid on Monday.