The leader of the official opposition, McHenry Venaani, is calling for the establishment of a Water and Rural Development Commission.

As the nation prepares to elect new leaders this year, the Former Plan Combatants Association (FPCA) converged in Ongwediva, Oshana Region, for a national conference to select their representatives to the Swapo Party Electoral College.

About 1,700 learners from seven schools and a kindergarten in the Zambezi Region benefitted from the Never Walk Alone Project over the weekend.

The learners received shoes, and for the first time since the start of the Never Walk Alone Project, 70 learners were gifted tracksuits.

The Public Service Commission (PSC) should be positioned in such a way that it conforms to the provisions of the Constitution, is independent, and acts impartially in advising the government on human resources and public administration.

The late Reverend Gert Johannes Kooper from the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was buried at Mariental, Hardap Region, over the weekend.

Reverend Kooper died on July 13th, at the age of 61.

The Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security has so far received about 90,000 identification document (ID) applications countrywide during the ongoing mass registration for national documents campaign. 

A water crisis continues to plague residents of various informal settlements in Rundu, Kavango East Region. 

The latest to cry over the lack of this resource are residents of the Tumweneni informal settlement, who claim to have been without water since March last year. 

Former refugees are demanding from the government that they be treated as war veterans and receive benefits just like others.

The group consists of individuals who were repatriated in 1989. 

They feel discriminated against, particularly with regard to veteran benefits. 

The Omaheke Region has registered seven thousand and eighty inhabitants without national documents during the national mass campaign, which started on February 5.

The campaign ends this month.

Over 200 women, young and old, gathered in Windhoek for the Namibia National Women Conference.

The conference, which is the first of its kind, was organised by the Namibia National Men Conference under the theme "It is well, my darling—we are all in this fight against violence".