ONGWEDIVA – Youth minister Erastus Uutoni has urged the young people to make use of the Development Bank of Namibia’s skills-based funding lending facility in order to create employment for themselves and others. The DBN lending facility assists young businesspeople with loans between N$50 000 and N$1 million.
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2020-02-142024-05-07National
//Kharas urged to intensify war on cybercrime
KEETMANSHOOP – Deputy Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare Lucia Witbooi says decision makers should ensure there are opportunities in the curriculum of children to learn more about online safety through effective child protection strategies.
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2020-02-142024-05-07National
Water restored in Rundu
RUNDU - NamWater has successfully restored the water supply at Rundu after some residents endured three days without water.
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2020-02-142024-04-30Front Page News
Students beg to be sent home
BEIJING – Hordes of Namibian students studying in China feel they have been abondoned by the government as they haplessly watch the evacuation of other international students from coronavirus-hit Wuhan.
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2020-02-142024-04-30Front Page News
Conradie spoke highly of ad agency for MTC tender
Former MTC board member Asser Ntinda said corruption accused lawyer Dirk Conradie spoke highly of advertising agency, DV8 Saatchi & Saatchi, during a 2012 board meeting in Portugal.
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2020-02-142024-04-30Front Page News
Social grants spent on booze
It has emerged that some San people in the Aminuis constituency are misusing their children’s monthly social grants given by the government as safety nets in eradicating extreme poverty and reducing inequality.
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2020-02-142024-04-30Front Page News
AR studying land offers
The Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement says it is currently studying offers for a potential housing development to accommodate landless youth south of Windhoek.
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2020-02-142024-06-18Crime and Courts
Knife killer jailed for 30 years
Oshakati High Court Judge Herman January sentenced a man convicted of killing his former girlfriend by stabbing her 11 times with a knife to 30 years in prison late last week.
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2020-02-142024-04-30Front Page News
Drought stalks Aminuis farmers
Despite the fact that most parts of Namibia have received goods rains and promising grazing, Aminuis constituency in the Omaheke region continues to feel the pinch of persistent drought.
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2020-02-142024-04-30Front Page News
Nudo backs proposed Genocide Day
Following the Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement’s declaration to have 2 October as Genocide Remembrance Day in honour of the Ovaherero and Nama who died at the hands of German colonial forces between 1904-1908, Nudo has also come on board in support of the idea.