Year: 2018

KATIMA MULILO - The Ministry of Environment and Tourism has ordered the Katima Mulilo Town Council (KMTC) to close its waste disposal site with immediate effect after the town council failed to enforce a mandatory compliance order dating back to August 2016.

WINDHOEK - Okakarara Constituency Councilor Vetaruhe Kandorozu has dismissed suggestions by some quarters that recent clashes between residents and police were tribally motivated.

WINDHOEK - Children born during the liberation struggle visited the president of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) McHenry Venaani seeking his involvement in their quest to get jobs, a plight shared by many other youths.

JOHANNESBURG - South African Kumi Naidoo, a prominent anti-apartheid activist who as a teen organised peaceful civil disobedience against racist authorities in that country, has been appointed secretary-general of the world’s largest human rights group Amnesty International.

WINDHOEK - The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Secretariat’s deputy executive secretary responsible for corporate affairs, Ambassador Joseph Andre Nourrice, was sworn in on Saturday.

KEETMANSHOOP – Seaflower general manager of operations Inocencio Verde says the challenges facing Namibia requires brilliant young minds to solve and it is up to young people to come up with pragmatic solutions to these problems.

Lüderitz - The Lüderitz Town Council has capacitated its long-serving employees, especially for those who have worked for many years in its employ and have the experience but they do not have academic qualifications.

Lüderitz - The Lüderitz Town Council and Namibia Public Workers Union (NAPWU) have negotiated and reached an agreement on workers’ benefits for the financial year 2018/2019.

RUNDU - The Namibian Police in Rundu were called to a gruesome crime scene at Gove village some 31 km east of Rundu along the Rundu-Divundu gravel road that runs parallel to the Kavango River where a man had just been killed with a sharp unidentified object in the early hours of Thursday.

RUNDU - Sikondo green scheme project assistant manager Maxwell Nghidinwa has revealed the fire that engulfed the green scheme project last week caused damage amounting to N$350,000 at the medium scale section (MSF) of the government farm.