With schools resuming next week, parents and guardians are rushing to stores to buy school stationery.

Long queues are the order of the day, and while some are happy to be nearly done, others are just getting started.

Stampriet residents have expressed frustration with having to rent erven from the village council, calling for a transition to ownership.

They say owning the land would provide them with greater security and stability.

A 30-year-old Namibian woman, Pauline Mbangula, who was arrested at OR Tambo International Airport in September 2024 after arriving from São Paulo with over 68 cocaine bullets ingested in her stomach, will make her 4th appearance before a Johannesburg magistrate on February 26.

The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) has dismissed the Independent Patriots for Change's (IPC) Electoral Court application as "vague and embarrassing."

This is the second respondent, together with the Swapo Party, who is asking the court to dismiss the application.