Several people with disabilities held a demonstration at Keetmanshoop on Monday after the Ministry of Finance said there will be no increase for people with disabilities. The current disability grant is N$1 600 per month. Finance spokesperson Wilson Shikoto confirmed…
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Mariental District Hospital patients face severe delays as oxygen plant repairs drag on, forcing the health ministry to appoint a new contractor to solve the ongoing crisis. The Ministry of Health and Social Services last week said the oxygen-generation plant…
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Two police officers from the Gender-Based Violence Victim Protection Subdivision at Keetmanshoop in the ||Kharas region are under investigation for allegedly assaulting a suspect. ||Kharas police acting regional commander Gertruida !Kharuxab has confirmed the charges against the police officers. !Kharuxas…
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THE Tses Village Council has terminated the employment contract of its chief executive office (CEO) Fritz Christiaan. Christiaan was serving his second five-year contract as the council’s CEO and had only two weeks left of his contract. The village council…
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THE Ministry of Health and Social Services revealed that the oxygen generation plant at the Mariental District Hospital is faulty and awaiting repairs. This comes amid reports from patients who visited the hospital with respiratory problems and were informed that…
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Residents of Tses village in the ||Kharas region say they are tired of travelling 80 kilometres to Keetmanshoop to access basic services like fuel, using automated teller machines (ATMs)to withdraw money and buy clothing and other necessary items. Residents held…
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The Mariental District Hospital in the Hardap region is reportedly without medical oxygen. The lack of oxygen is said to have been intermittent for the past three to four months. The Ministry of Health and Social Services says it will…
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A Mariental baby has died in a makeshift shelter, allegedly after being exposed to severely cold weather and malnutrition, highlighting her family’s desperate living conditions. Susana Bock (43), who sought help to rebuild her home last month, lost her daughter,…
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The farming and business communities in the Hardap and ||Kharas regions have expressed great shock and sadness at the death of Jan-Hendrik ‘Johnny’ Hanekom (69) this weekend. Hanekom, a farmer in the Maltahöhe district, was also the owner of Johnny’s…
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Keetmanshoop mayor Emrico Blaauw says the municipality is cooperating with law enforcement in investigating the death of a boy at the town on Sunday. Mohammed Austin (10) was run over by a municipal water truck at Paradise informal settlement. He…
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National Council member for the Berseba constituency Raymond Jossop says the N$50 million investment made into the servicing of roads, electricity, water and sewerage facilities at Aus has reached 60% completion. Jossop says the investment into the development of services…
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Former Keetmanshoop mayor Melody Swartbooi has approached the High Court to review and set aside her unceremonious removal by the Landless People’s Movement (LPM). The LPM in June this year withdrew Swartbooi as its representative on the Keetmanshoop Town Council,…
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