Despite painting a bleak picture of the struggling Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco), agriculture minister Calle Schlettwein now says the entity is not his baby, instead referring queries pertaining to it to the finance ministry, under which the corporation resides.
Author: Edward Mumbuu (Edward Mumbuu )
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Geingob: Local news headlines depressing
While the media is expected to keep the government on its toes, President Hage Geingob is concerned that it cannot be true that there is nothing the State is doing right as depicted by continuous negative headlines in the press.
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Katjiua establishes generational mission
One of the claimant Ovaherero Traditional Authority paramount chiefs, academic Mutjinde Katjiua, says he has located his mission for the polarised community, but like his predecessors, he too faces counter-revolutionary forces.
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Meatco borrows from Peter to pay Paul – Schlettwein
Despite paying off commercial bank loans, Meatco’s financial position never improved an inch, as the entity merely borrowed N$437.3 million from the Development Bank of Namibia to pay off the said loans, leaving nothing to write home about.
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Otjimbingwe delivers Riruako …Venaani, Kavekotora gracious in defeat
Shortly before the crack of dawn on Sunday at the historic Otjimbingwe, the towering Hoze Riruako rose to be unveiled as new Ovaherero paramount chief-designate.
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NNN enters condom tender fray
Swapo vice president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has added her voice against the controversial medical tenders, saying the country’s opulence should benefit the masses, as opposed to a select few.
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CPBN abstains from condom factory fracas
Despite promising that it would ascertain whether health tender magnate Shapwa Kanyama’s purported factory exists, and manufactures condoms, the silence from the Central Procurement Board is deafening.
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NNFU: Don’t slaughter Meatco yet
It is an open secret that Meatco finds itself between a rock and a hard place, gasping for breath like a dying cow, but it must not be killed, for now, says the Namibia National Farmers Union.
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Otjimbingwe vote dispute looms
Lawyers representing the Ovaherero Traditional Authority, led by paramount chief claimant, academic Mutjinde Katjiua, have written to Ovitoto chief Vipuira Kapuuo to block this weekend's election and coronation of the authority’s successor to Vekuii Rukoro.
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Otjimbingwe hosts historic Ovaherero chief vote
Thousands of Ovaherero Traditional Authority loyalists and spectators will have their eyes squarely fixed on Erongo’s Otjimbingwe settlement to witness the election and coronation of OTA’s ombara otjitambi (paramount chief).