GROOTFONTEIN – Peeling walls, an excruciating stench of urine, broken taps, crumbling buildings, overflowing toilets, scattered rubbish, and hopelessness best describe the situation of squatters at Grootfontein’s Single Quarters. The living conditions at the town’s apartheid-era compounds are appalling. Over 400 families live at the decaying one-room dwellings. They were constructed by the repugnant South...
OKAKARARA – Following weeks of uncertainty, Okakarara mayor Samuelline Ngairo says they are working around the clock to ensure that the 16th edition of the Okakarara Annual Trade Fair takes place. If all goes according to the rescue operation, the trade fair will take place next month. Speaking to New Era this week, she admitted that...
OTJIWARONGO – The government, through the ministry of agriculture, continues to strengthen and roll out its livestock support programme, which aims to capacitate farmers and share modern production techniques that are resilient to climate change. Farmers in the eight regions of the country’s Northern Communal Areas (NCAs), which comprise Zambezi, Kavango East, Kavango West, Oshikoto,...
RIETFONTEIN – Just as Namibia’s agronomy sector is grappling with a fluctuating and mammoth annual import bill of over N$472 million, the National Youth Service (NYS) Production Centre at Rietfontein is rising like a phoenix, and will soon become the country’s only oasis of hope. Situated approximately 40km south of Grootfontein in the vast Otjozondjupa...
OKAKARARA – The Okakarara Annual Trade Fair, one of the country’s biggest, is facing an uncertain future because of infighting. In fact, New Era has learnt that as it currently stands, this year’s trade fair might be called off due to a lack of potential sponsors and an absence of enthusiasm from the area’s farmers,...
National Unity Democratic Organisation secretary general Josef Kauandenge will not be standing for the party’s parliamentary list in the upcoming elections. Kauandenge, who about two months ago also made a U-turn on his decision to vie for Nudo’s presidency position at the party’s planned congress, which ended in failure, said his latest decision is a...
OKAHANDJA – Academic Mutjinde Katjiua has threatened to mobilise his subjects against voting for the National Unity Democratic Organisation or its candidate in November. This is if the Nudo leadership does not change its political posture towards his chieftainship, he said, threatening to strategically disarm the party at the polls come November’s watershed elections, where...
The Mashare Blueberries Farm, which is now in its fifth year of production, is expecting another quality bumper harvest spanning over 60 hectares, with large quantities of Azrablue, Atlasblue, Biancablue berries and Sekoya Pop all anticipating to embellish this year’s yield. The country’s first-ever commercial berry farm is situated 45km outside Rundu in the Kavango...
*Truth and reconciliation commission proposed *‘Remove colonial statues’ While atrocities committed in 1904/08 are genocide under international law binding at the time, there is no legal avenue to obtain redress in contemporary judicial instruments and institutions. This is etched in a report by Johns Hopkins University, obtained by this publication. The report is titled ‘Restitution,...
The last few weeks have seen Omaheke region making great strides in increasing the number of registered voters across its seven constituencies, with the number now well over 31 000. Compared to the last figures of about 20 330 registered voters, which is about 32% of eligible voters, the Electoral Commission of Namibia has made...