To mark the 2024 World Menstrual Awareness Week, the 4x4 Initiative distributed sanitary pads to about 100 rural girls in the ||Kharas Region. 

The Community of Vaalgras has welcomed the motion proposing the erection of an ever-lighting shrine in honour of Kaptein Hendrik Witbooi in their village. 

They shared these sentiments during consultations with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resources and Community Development. 

The Nama community from across the country gathered at Keetmanshoop to celebrate their rich cultural heritage during the four-day annual Nama Cultural Festival. 

Now in its fifth year, the festival creates a platform for the Nama community to showcase various aspects of their culture. 

Political leadership and traditional leaders in the ||Kharas Region are in support of the parliamentary motion to erect an ever-lighting shrine in honour of the legacy of the late Kaptein Hendrik Witbooi. 

Gaob Hendrik Ismael Witbooi of the |Khowese Clan has expressed disappointment that the Witbooi Traditional Authority was made to wait for hours for the scheduled meeting for the consultations on the shrine erection motion with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource and Community Development. 

Members of the |Khowese clan have applauded a motion proposing the erection of an ever-lighting shrine to honour their late Kaptein Hendrik Witbooi in the Vaalgras area, where he is believed to have succumbed to injuries sustained during a battle with German imperial forces. 

The Government Institution Pensioners' Association in Namibia (GIPAN) has rejected the five percent annual pension increase by the Government Institution Pension Fund.

The Chairperson of GIPAN, Raphael Pieters, argued that the increment is 0.46 percent less than the previous financial year.

Swapo Party Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called on party members to defend the foundation that paved the way for the country's hard-won independence. 

She made the call at the party's 64th-anniversary commemoration at Mariental in the Hardap Region. 

The Keetmanshoop Town Council's management committee has a new chairperson as well as a new deputy mayor.

Easter Isaak replaces Johannes Nathan Vries as chairperson, while Annelize Knaus was elected deputy mayor.

Construction work being carried out at the Keetmanshoop Vocational Training Centre is about 89 percent complete.

Construction of the N$103 million Keetmanshoop VTC, funded by the government, commenced in January 2021.