Likius Ngesheya from Suiderlig Secondary School in Keetmanshoop is this year's overall winner of the Science Fair. More than one hundred students from seventeen schools in the ||Kharas Region took part in the two-day science fair.

A number of classrooms are under construction in the ||Kharas Region to ease overcrowding.

The cost of the development is estimated at N$9 million.

The Community of Koes in the ||Kharas Region hosted a beauty pageant and a dance competition recently.

Rodneycia Basson was crowned Miss Koes, and Young Okkz was crowned dance champion of 2023.

Twenty young people participated in a one-day workshop at Keetmanshoop in the ||Kharas Region with a focus on mainstream politics and youth involvement in the democratic process.

Residents of the ||Kharas Region have thrown their support behind the motion on the writing-off of water and electricity debts that local authorities owe bulk suppliers, NamWater and NamPower.

The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) leader McHenry Venaani has called on voters in the Keetmanshoop Rural Constituency to come out in numbers on the 15th of May to vote for Johannes Eiman.

Venaani made the call when he addressed the party's rally at Aroab in the ||Kharas Region. 

Tribesmen and women from the !Aman clan, a sub-tribe of the Nama people, gathered at Aus settlement in the ||Kharas Region to pay tribute to their fallen heroes during the clan's annual cultural festival. 

This year's festival is being held under the theme 'Faith, Love, and Hope'.

The Minister of Sports, Youth, and National Service, Agnes Tjongarero, has encouraged young people to aspire towards entrepreneurship as a solution to addressing the high rate of youth unemployment.

The Swapo Party in the ||Kharas Region has rubbished speculations that some of its leadership backs independent candidate Gerrit Witbooi rather than the party's candidate Elias !Kharuxab in the upcoming by-election.

The Deputy Kaptein of the |Hai-|Khaua clan and liberation struggle stalwart, Stephanus Goliath, has been buried at his ancestral village of Berseba in the ||Kharas Region. 

Hundreds of mourners flocked to Berseba village to pay their last respect at the state funeral service.