Namibia has asked South Africa to send forensic experts to help investigate at least five mass graves discovered in the north of the country. The graves, near a South African army base, are thought to date from South African occupation of Namibia. Before independence in 1990 South African was engaged in conflict with Namibian Swapo liberation fighters in northern Namibia and in Angola. Police say clothes found at the site resemble those worn by Swapo fighters.

Young people who drop out of the formal school system would no longer struggle to grasp concepts at vocational training institutions following the Namibia Training Authority (NTA)’s initiative to simplify the curriculum. This week, NTA handed over a unit of standards, curricula and training manuals for the bricklaying and plastering occupation and the hospitality industry.

SAfAIDS offers a short-term consultancy in two Southern African Countries - Namibia and Mozambique. SAfAIDS has become increasingly convinced of the critical role of culture in influencing the direction and rate at which social change around gender equality and HIV/AIDS prevention and impact mitigation occurs in communities.

Namibian president Hifikepunye Pohamba's anti-corruption campaign scored a significant victory this week with the resignation from parliament of a scandal-tainted former minister, analysts said. Paulus Kapia was forced to resign from his position as deputy minister of works, transport and communication in late August, after a high court liquidation inquiry into a US $5.7 million investment in his company, Avid Investment Corporation, went missing.