The Keetmanshoop Town Council has suspended acting CEO Deseree Boois, who holds the Financial Strategic Executive position, with full salary pending an investigation into alleged financial irregularities.

Council resolved Boois’s suspension at a meeting on Tuesday.

Two hundred and twenty-nine people have died since the start of the year as a result of motor vehicle accidents across the country.

The Motor Vehicle Accident Fund said personal responsibility from every road user is the only way to reverse the trend.

More than N$218 million in unclaimed pension benefits could be sitting in institutional accounts while thousands of beneficiaries remain unaware that money is legally owed to them.

Prime Minister Elijah Ngurare said the situation of Angolan kids as young as four years old on the streets is a case the government regards as urgent.

It's all systems go ahead of the 9th Southern African Customs Union Heads of State and Governments' Summit on Friday.

The summit scheduled to take place in Cape Town, South Africa, follows a series of SACU institutional meetings.