WINDHOEK – The most representative body of local businesses, the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI), has called on local manufacturers and suppliers to increase their capacity and output in order to decrease a historic dependence on South Africa.
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2019-09-052024-05-07National
Namibia makes huge progress in HIV treatment
WINDHOEK – Namibia has gone beyond achieving the HIV fast-track targets of UNAIDS by ensuring more than 90 percent of people living with HIV know their status and are on treatment while their viral load is suppressed.
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2019-09-052024-05-07National
Zambezi distributes poor quality drought food
KATIMA MULILO – Some beneficiaries under this year’s drought relief programme in Zambezi Region have cried foul saying the maize meal being distributed to them is unfit for human consumption.
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2019-09-052024-05-07National
Accused denies killing pregnant girlfriend
WINDHOEK - A 21-year-old man from Leonardville near Gobabis yesterday denied having slit the throat of his two months pregnant girlfriend. This was entered as his plea to charges of murder read with the
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2019-09-052024-05-07National
Defence asks for acquittal in bar murder trial
WINDHOEK - Defence lawyer Trevor Brockerhoff yesterday asked Windhoek High Court Judge Naomi Shivute to acquit his client Sakarias (Sacky) Mathias, 58, on all charges when he made mitigatory
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2019-09-052024-05-07National
Westlane robbers to face trial in 2020
WINDHOEK - The Windhoek Regional Court gave a final remand for the trial of a group of foreign nationals accused of carrying out an armed robbery at a shopping centre in Pioneerspark Extension 1, in 2017 and walking away with over N$400 000.
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2019-09-052024-05-07National
Govt clamps down on Illegal fencing
ONGWEDIVA - The Ministry of Land Reform will this week deliberate on measures to clamp down on illegal fencing in communal areas in Ohangwena dotting the region.
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2019-09-052024-05-07National
Relief at Kaakuwa as learners receive sanitary pads
NKURENKURU - There was a huge sigh of relief among schoolgirls from poor families attending Kaakuwa Combined School in Kavango West on Tuesday when they received donations of sanitary pads and hygiene products from a youth-run organisation.
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2019-09-052024-05-07National
Chief Hoveka extends helping hand to farmers
GOBABIS - The Hoveka Royal House has donated 100 bales of grass to Omaheke residents through the office of the Omaheke regional governor Festus Ueitele at farm Du Plessis to assist farmers affected by the current severe drought.
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2019-09-052024-05-07National
Nkurenkuru, DBN land deal in limbo
NKURENKURU - The Nkurenkuru Town Council has since 2018 been waiting for the approval of the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development (MURD) for it to enter into a joint-venture partnership with the Development Bank of Namibia (DBN) to service 333 residential plots.