New Delhi – Indian police are having a field day handing out fines to people who do not wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic. Many people just cannot get used to the accessory, which has come to symbolise the new normal, having been made compulsory in most big cities. New Delhi shared-ride driver Munish...
Paris – Poorer nations could see hundreds of thousands of additional deaths from HIV, tuberculosis and malaria as Covid-19 disrupts vital health services and access to life-saving treatment, new research warned yesterday. Modelling the impact in countries that will bear the brunt of the three diseases over the next five years, the study found that...
Hilma Hashange Parents of lower primary learners are worried about sending their children back to school as Covid-19 cases surge. The pre-primary to grade 3 learners resumed face-to-face classes on 7 July and many parents fear that their children are not ready to go back to school. Diana Slinger, a parent of a grade 2...
A ruling in a legal battle between prominent local defence lawyer, Sisa Namandje and the Law Society of Namibia (LSN), is expected to be made public in the High Court on Friday. Initially, High Court Judge Herman Oosthuizen, who is presiding over the matter, was scheduled to give his ruling on 24 July 2020. However,...
David Adetona Khomas governor Laura Mcleod-Katjirua recently handed over equipment and material worth N$700 000 as part of the development programme dedicated to small-scale entrepreneurs or for the self-employed to participate in local economic activities and to also create employment in the region. The governor’s development programme partnership since 2014 with Namsov Fishing Enterprises through...
ONDANGWA – The Minister of Environment, Forestry and Tourism Pohamba Shifeta officially launched the Namibia Integrated Landscape Approach for Enhancing Livelihoods and Environmental Governance to Eradicate Poverty (NILALEG) project at Ondangwa in Oshana on Friday. The NILALEG project is being implemented jointly by the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, the University of Namibia and...
Moses Magadza Members of parliament, who represent their countries on the SADC PF Standing Committee on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources, are cracking their heads over how to help revive the agriculture sector to ensure there is regional food security. This, as evidence, mounts that the on-going global Covid-19 pandemic has sent the sector in...
Let me start by making it very clear that our protracted liberation struggle has never been against racial groups, in this case particularly the whites. The struggle was against inhuman exploitation, unjust and oppressive colonial occupation and apartheid rule. The fact, however, was that under the apartheid system, the exploited were supposed to be the...
Michela Pakarae The Chinese metropolis Shenzhen is often perceived as one of the most advanced urban places in China because of both its technology and dynamics. This perception is grounded in the story of the ‘fisher village’ that was transformed into a Special Economic Zone within a few years to metropolitan town of high-rise buildings,...
The Covid-19 pandemic has made people realise how important information and communication technology (ICT) is and also led to the sector intensifying its service delivery efforts. This was said by Director of ICT Development in the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Linda Aipinge during Thursday’s information session at the Covid-19 Communication Centre. The theme...