Justice Minister, Albert Kawana has awarded the best achieving learners and teachers of Lisikili Combined School in the Zambezi Region. The best three learners were awarded with certificates of achievement and a cash prize of N$950.

With introduction of free education, learners have lost any excuse to complain that they cannot afford education. Deputy-Minister of Finance Natangwe Ithete says learners are only required to study hard.

The Retirement Fund for Local Authorities and Utility Services launched a new corporate identity, coinciding with the fund’s 25th anniversary. The rebranding was necessitated, due to reported confusion of the old logo, with that of government agencies, or political parties.

After NBC aired a story on television news of a single mother who is raising a disabled child in the tiny settlement of Kosis in the //Kharas Region, Ombaye Fishing company, as part of its social responsibility, donated a wheelchair and groceries to the value of N$5 000.

The Sport activist and mother of former sprinter Frank Fredericks, Ricky Fredericks, has died. She died in the Roman Catholic Hospital Friday morning, at the age of 77, following a heart attack.

The National Housing Enterprise (NHE) has adopted an aggressive selling intervention for houses constructed under the mass housing programme. This was said by the Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Sophia Shaningwa.

Shoprite Namibia workers are calling on Namibians to stop supporting the retailer. Demonstrating workers have handed the company a petition with more than 1 000 signatures, collected from Namibians sympathising with their cause.

Police in the //Karas Region are intensifying their crime-fighting and prevention efforts, across the region. The Regional Commander spoke to NBC News, when our news crew spotted him alongside other high ranking officers – while on foot patrol, in the streets of Keetmanshoop.

Rossing Uranium has won the legal battle over the distribution of a surplus in pension funds against its former employees. About 1 000 former employees, who worked for the company during the 70’s, demanded a 33% share of the N$450 million surplus pension fund.

The NBC will host diverse International content, following a handing over of 21 television programmes to the public broadcaster, by Japan as part of the partnership agreement.