Month: November 2020

ETOSHA – Despite the negative impacts stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic, domestic tourism has been reported to have picked up with more locals visiting the Etosha National Park compared to international tourists. 

ONGWEDIVA – Correctional facilities across the country are nearly cleared of Covid-19, with only 11 active cases left from a total of 600 reported since 11 June this year. The first case was reported at the Walvis Bay correctional facility.

A handover ceremony of 38 erven to landless police officers was abruptly halted after local residents of Ekunde informal settlement at Okahandja disrupted the proceedings claiming the selection process was not fairly done. 

Following claims by the Botswana Defence Force that the four fishermen killed along the Chobe River were armed with weapons, the Namibian police yesterday dispatched divers to assist in the search for the alleged firearms. 

WALVIS BAY – The historic labour compound at Walvis Bay, which has over the years turned into an eye sore, will be transformed into a vocational training centre. 

A local security company, whose three-year contract to provide security services to the Namibia University of Science and Technology was revoked by the Central Procurement Board of Namibia’s review panel,