The Basic Income Grant Coalition is engaging political parties on persistent inequality and poverty.

A N$10 million project to establish the Kongola to Masambo powerline and the electrification of the Masambo Primary School in the Zambezi Region has been commissioned.

The projects were initially budgeted to cost N$3.62 million, but they have been increased due to the distance from the power line.

Police in the Kavango West Region are on a mission to combat illegal timber harvesting and sale.

During August, at least 400 processed timber planks were confiscated. 

State advocate Ethel Ndlovu wants a 10- to 15-year prison sentence for Jandre Dippenaar, who was convicted of killing six people in a car accident near Henties Bay in 2014.

The state and defence in the Dippenaar case presented oral closing arguments in the regional court at Swakopmund on Thursday.

Swapo Party Politburo Member Sisa Namandje has maintained and assured members that the party's sole presidential candidate, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, was constitutionally elected.