ROAD Authority chief executive Conrad Lutombi says the authority has appointed a contractor to construct a temporary road between Windhoek and Rehoboth. This comes after a section of the road closed due to a bridge that sustained damage from the…

Paulus Kasera spends his days transforming old tyres into valuable items such as thatch roof fastenings, fishing nets, thread to stitch shoes, chairs and tables. A group of young men surround Kasera and his younger brother in Windhoek’s Okahandja Park…

The police are urging parents to contact them about cases of gender-based violence (GBV) and for advice on handling children with behavioural issues. They are pleading with parents not to resort to harmful disciplinary action. This comes after a Windhoek…

The Roads Authority (RA) in 2021 introduced written learner’s licence tests in several local languages at all NaTIS centres countrywide. However, the practice has been put on hold due to low demand, says RA spokesperson Hileni Fillemon. Fillemon yesterday told…

Determination and consistency has made him rise above the rest – literally. As he walks through a crowd balancing on long steel stilts, Delvacio Eitabeb (27) says he has turned his passion into a job.Eitabeb, who is from Windhoek’s Freedomland,…

… father of drowned schoolboy on recovering son’s body Cornelius Nauyoma, the father of O’Linn Nauyoma (16), who drowned during a school tour last September, says he feels relieved after finally giving his son a decent burial. Nauyoma was speaking…

Relatives and friends of O’Linn Nauyoma, who drowned in Lake Guinas near Tsumeb in September last year, gathered at Nauyoma’s homestead at the village Ohalushu in the Ohangwena region on Saturday to lay him to rest. O’Linn (16) drowned while…

The City of Windhoek says it is setting up schools and medical services at the site where several families have been moved to after the floods. In a press statement on Friday, city spokesperson Lydia Amutenya said sites for police…

The body of the pupil who drowned at Lake Guinas near Tsumeb during a school trip has finally been retrieved. Police inspector general Joseph Shikongo confirmed this yesterday. O’linn Nauyoma (16) from Etosha Secondary School drowned last September while on…

“Today marks four years since you went missing. We are calling on anyone with information about my son, Spencer Mandela Nakale, to call me or call the nearest police station.” This is what Nelson Nakale (39) posted on social media…

Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture executive director Sanet Steenkamp on Tuesday updated the public on progress made in the recovery of O’Linn Nauyoma’s remains. His body was retrieved on Tuesday morning. Nauyoma, who was a pupil at Etosha Secondary…

Cancer Association of Namibia (CAN) chief executive Rolf Hansen has called on women to get screened for cervical cancer.”January is cervical cancer awareness month, the type of cancer currently ranked number two after breast cancer,” he says.Cervical cancer is one…