With the start of the school year, heavy traffic has become a daily occurrence as learners are dropped off and picked up from schools.

The Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, Emma Kantema, has expressed concern over a video circulating on social media showing a minor allegedly drinking tombo. 

The four minors, who earlier this week died from suffocation in a disused freezer in Cowboy Settlement, have been laid to rest.

A combined memorial service was held for the four children on Thursday in Katima Mulilo.

A crisis of children, mostly female, roaming around the streets and malls of the capital, selling wooden goods and begging for coins, has become a concern.

Five incidents of rape involving minors have been reported to the Namibian Police over the weekend.