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Spat at City meeting
Tensions reached boiling point at the monthly City of Windhoek council meeting, when the management committee rejected a motion by three opposition party members, in which they questioned the...
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Bank card fraud drops
Even though the banking industry is only halfway with the issuing of Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) compliant bank cards, a reduction in bank card fraud was already recorded last year. According to...
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Women nabbed for prison smuggling
Three women - aged 21, 29 and 38 - were arrested at the Windhoek Central Prison on Tuesday, after they allegedly attempted to smuggle prohibited items, including drugs, tobacco, dagga and cellphones...
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Cops apologise after couple’s crime horror
An armed home invasion in the early morning hours last Saturday, by assailants wielding guns and knives, marked the third criminal event in less than a month for acclaimed chef David Thomas and his...
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Sleeping pills linked to murder
A Rehoboth family, whose daughter was shot dead by her husband, is furious at the police for allegedly not responding in time to their frantic phone call for help, but are also baffled by the killing,...
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!Oë#Gân protestors barred from festival
!Oë#Gân Traditional Authority community members have been barred from entering a recent cultural festival in Okombahe, where they had hoped to express their dissatisfaction with Chief Immanuel /Gáseb...
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Water crisis closes Coca-Cola production lines
The Coca-Cola Namibian Bottling Company (CCNBC) has halted two of its production lines, including the one handling its locally canned products, which will now have to be imported – a move that may soon...
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Retired with no regrets
Former Commonwealth welterweight champion Paulus ‘Ali’ Nuumbembe is proud of the way he ended his boxing career and has no regrets. Nuumbembe recently told Namibian Sun that he has no qualms about how...
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Players struggle in Lithuania
Although the two Namibian stars in Lithuania Zenatha Coleman and Thomalina Adams managed to score six goals for their team FC Gintra-Universitetas against Kaunas LSU-Zara, the two youngsters are not...
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Gome doubts Cosafa call-up
While many are worried about his lack of game time at Bidvest Wits, the stylish Wangu Gome is not deterred by that, saying he is still learning a lot from the club in the South African top flight. The...
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Pumas hand Welwitschias a thrashing
The Steval Pumas ran in seven tries to one to thrash the Windhoek Draught Welwitschias 47-7 (halftime 35-0) in their new provincial tournament rugby fixture at Ermelo High School, Ermelo, on Saturday....
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No beds, many rats
Women at the children’s ward of Katutura State Hospital on the seventh floor, have been dumped on mattresses, while they say they have to stay awake, afraid rats might reach their sickly children. When...
View ArticleContinent to bear price of inflation
The IMF expects an average inflation rate of 5.2% for Namibia this year. This is slightly above the median of 4.9% it forecasts for Africa for 2016, but considerably less than the average of 9%...
View Article70-year-old appears for sodomy
A 70-year old man was denied bail in the Opuwo Magistrate’s Court yesterday, after he appeared for allegedly sodomising a nine-year-old boy. Tjipingana Langman Tjituri shares the same kraal with the...
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Brain damaged and paralysed
A mother has been left broken and without answers, after an operation on her son’s fractured arm at the Katutura State Hospital left him completely paralysed and unable to speak. Kamalata Kandombua now...
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Bar owner's gun ends beer swindling spree
Five men got the shock of their lives on Sunday afternoon, when a bar owner tracked them down and demanded back his money at gunpoint, after the group had swindled his bartender out of beer and money....
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Access to information law coming - government
Government has confirmed that an access to information law is still on the cards, despite questions that similar promises have not borne fruit to date. At the belated commemoration yesterday of World...
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Windhoek water shortage dire
Residents will have to develop a long-term mentality in the manner in which they use water if they want access to potable water over the next eight years, City of Windhoek Strategic Executive for...
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