Namibia produces about 40% of the food it consumes, and is highly dependent on imports. So, when the countries it imports from decide to close their borders to conserve the food they produce for their own citizens for whatever reason, including the ongoing Covid-19 threats, Namibia’s food security will be at terrible risk.
Nollar Tjaimi, a crop farmer, has advised fellow and potential agriculturalists to be mindful of mixing vegetables that are not compatible as they can cause devastating effects to the growth of their production.
The Namibian College of Open Learning recently awarded 41 students with scholarships to improve their grades, including 10 inmates from the Windhoek Correctional Facility.
Namibia over the weekend surpassed the 4 000 Covid-19 death mark, showing an indication the pandemic is still claiming lives, even though numbers of fatalities have decreased and regulations have been relaxed.
“I am a big fan of music and when the music speaks to me, I respond,” says Atwell Neusu, professionally known as Slickartie.
For many mothers giving birth is the greatest experience of their lives, and quite a few nowadays want that moment when their babies enter the world captured and documented for keepsake.
Each year, about 400 000 children and adolescents globally develop cancer, the World Health Organisation says. In Namibia, around four to five children are
diagnosed every week.
With the detection of a new HIV strain in The Netherlands, health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula has urged Namibians to be cautious and to take extra care as a preventative measure.
Former labour deputy minister Alphaus Vehonga Muheua, who passed on yesterday, has been hailed as a committed, humble and principled trade unionist of note who had the best interest of workers at heart. He was 65.
“The slowest cow will eventually reach the kraal, so we will get there with vaccinating the larger population.”