The Ebenezer Royal Primary School, a private school at Omuthiya, was closed down after seven counts of alleged rape involving minors at its hostel. 

The reports surfaced after one of the minors opened up to her teachers about the acts last Wednesday.

With the start of the school year, heavy traffic has become a daily occurrence as learners are dropped off and picked up from schools.

The Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, Emma Kantema, has expressed concern over a video circulating on social media showing a minor allegedly drinking tombo. 

The four minors, who earlier this week died from suffocation in a disused freezer in Cowboy Settlement, have been laid to rest.

A combined memorial service was held for the four children on Thursday in Katima Mulilo.

A crisis of children, mostly female, roaming around the streets and malls of the capital, selling wooden goods and begging for coins, has become a concern.

Five incidents of rape involving minors have been reported to the Namibian Police over the weekend.