Year: 2018

KEETMANSHOOP - //Kharas Regional Director of Education, /Awebahe //Hoeseb has expressed concerns over the disappointingly low numbers of men registered for the Adult Literacy Programmes, saying more needs to be done to change this pattern.

WALVIS BAY - The Namibia Fish Consumption Promotion Trust (NFCPT) will host its annual fish consumption 
day in Opuwo in Kunene in October to encourage more people to eat fish.

WINDHOEK - Gerald Henly Matlata, 34, the man who had the southern town of Mariental in a grip of fear for three years was yesterday sentenced to life in prison on convictions of murder, rape, robbery, housebreaking with intent to rob and robbery, theft and housebreaking with intent to rape and rape.

WINDHOEK - A 29-year-old man died after he was allegedly struck by a bullet while holding his one-month-old baby in their shack in Okahandja Park informal settlement on Monday evening.

WINDHOEK - Namibian students pursuing medical related courses at Cavendish University in Zambia will commence classes, following approval by the Health Professions Council of Zambia for the university to offer the Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery programme.

WINDHOEK - The Duke of Cambridge Prince William is set to make his first visit to Namibia, on 24th and 25th September, as part of his trip to Africa ahead of the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference to be held in London on 11th and 12th October 2018. 

WINDHOEK – The Swapo Party Elders’ Council (SPEC) wants government to revoke the “willing buyer, willing seller” policy, which it says has spectacularly failed to deliver desired results for the nation.

WINDHOEK - The Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF), in sharp irony, incurred losses of N$7.9 million from a debt recovery contract it had with Tribesmen to collect funds owed to it by former students. 

WINDHOEK - Two nurses at the Okuryangava clinic who allegedly refused to attend to a 24-year-old woman in labour, who subsequently gave birth at the gate of the clinic, have been suspended with immediate effect pending a disciplinary procedure. 

WINDHOEK – Scores of recognised and unrecognised traditional leaders of the Nama and the Ovaherero/Ovambanderu communities have petitioned Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila for the ancestral land issue to be a ‘thematic’ agenda item at the second national land conference taking place in two weeks’ time.