-Five people sustained injuries and were left homeless after a fire which was ignited by a gas cylinder explosion, broke out in Mondesa, Swakopmund on Tuesday night.

-The City of Windhoek has rejected an appeal by lobby group Affirmative Repositioning to stop demolishing shacks of land occupiers in informal areas of the capital.

-Shacks make up about 40% of all households in urban areas.

-The Windhoek City Police removed shacks of land occupiers at the Okahandja Park informal settlement on Sunday.

-Close to 100 shack owners and their families in Walvis Bay's Tutaleni residential area continue to illegally occupy municipal land.

-The mayor of Windhoek has called upon the city residents, to refrain from taking the law into their own hands.