RUNDU - The police in Kavango East are investigating a case of rape at Ndiyona village after it emerged a 14-year-old minor fell pregnant following a rape incident in November last year. However, the case was never reported to the police as the minor was allegedly threatened by the suspect against reporting the case.
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2020-06-022024-05-07National
Councillor denies favouring wife
Karasburg East constituency councillor Dennis Coetzee has denied allegations that he deliberately withheld information from the public regarding the production of face masks in favour of a company owned by his wife. “Dennis Coetzee deliberately withheld information on a government tender for the manufacturing of face masks, in the process arranged that his wife’s company, Denacle Investments, be awarded the tender,” an aggrieved resident Jacobus Basson claimed in a petition seen by New Era.
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2020-06-022024-05-07National
Projects get lion’s share of Walvis budget
The bulk of the 2020/2021 budget of the Walvis Bay municipality will be allocated to the continuation of already approved capital projects, service delivery as well as maintenance and upgrading of infrastructure projects.
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2020-06-022024-06-18Crime and Courts
Magistrate court postpones human trafficking case
The formal bail application of South African national Kenneth Karner (66), who was nabbed for alleged human trafficking involving two minor girls, has been postponed for the continuation of his application to be released on bail on the charges levelled against him.
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2020-06-022024-05-07National
Councillor accused of maltreating staff
A concerned resident is dismayed over the alleged maltreatment of administrative staff in the office of the Keetmanshoop Urban constituency councillor, Maxie Minnaar.
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2020-06-022024-05-07National
Mother dumps baby
The body of a baby girl, wrapped in plastic bags, was found during the morning hours of 1 June at the Eenhana municipal dumpsite by a group of women collecting refuse for recycling.
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2020-06-022024-05-07National
Nanso: Schools should not police pupils’ hairstyles
RUNDU - The Namibia National Students Organisation (Nanso) says schools should not bar learners from attending classes because of their hairstyles.
“Nanso further calls on all schools across Namibia to adhere to the call by the ministry of education that no learner be sent home as a result of their hairstyle. Nanso calls on all learners to remain calm as we await on the guidelines from the Office of the Attorney General that will regulate this situation in both state and private schools,” Nanso spokesperson Dylan Mukoroli said in a statement.
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2020-06-022024-05-07National
Tunacor donates fish to 300 vulnerable households
Three hundred needy and vulnerable households in Kavango West last week received food parcels from Tunacor Fisheries Limited.
The gesture aims to ease the threat of food insecurity being posed by the coronavirus global pandemic.
The donation comprised of boxes of frozen fish, dry food and school stationery.
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2020-06-022024-05-07National
Governor wants border control measures strengthened
ARIAMSVLEI - As a region bordering directly with South Africa, which accounts for almost 80% of Namibia’s imports, a need exist to relook at Covid-19 mitigation measures in place at the Ariamsvlei and Noordoewer border posts, said //Kharas governor Aletha Fredericks.
The governor made the remarks during a stakeholder consultation meeting held last week at Ariamsvlei.
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2020-06-022024-05-07National
Opinion – Racism: The George Floyd story
The world is in an uproar! The killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May 2020 in the USA was an act of premeditated murder as called by some.
Police in the United States of America has through the years being on a killing spree against people of colour, and nothing was being done against them.