Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

No one seemingly took former health minister Bernard Haufiku seriously when he questioned the N$1 million budget of the Namibia University of Science and Technology earmarked for research.

KATIMA MULILO – Established by the United Nations to be celebrated worldwide on 8 March, the International Women’s Day was celebrated in the Zambezi region to honour the women in the region under the theme “Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world”. 

Uundenge Agri Farm is one of the few social development initiatives that aims to alleviate poverty and contribute to food security in the country. 

Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) leaders in the Kunene region have started distributing 200 bales of hay as immediate aid to the drought-stricken farmers, party’s presidential spokesperson Inaa Hengari has said.

The Covid-19 pandemic has wrought havoc on life as we knew it, with mainstream schools scrambling to retain a semblance of normality for their learners.

Tomorrow will officially mark a year since Namibia recorded its first ever Covid-19 case. Ironically, yesterday also marked one year since the World Health Organisation officially declared the spread of the novel coronavirus a pandemic. 

Despite the economic devastation and public health threat brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Namibian authorities have invested handsomely in new infrastructure with the hope of scaling up Covid-19 testing in the country.  

A northern-based woman is claiming N$300 000 in damages from another woman for allegedly claiming the former left her teaching post in 2014 because she was HIV-positive. Now an intern legal officer, Libertine Popyeni Naudyepo Shiyaleni is suing Ruth Martha Hangula in the Oshakati High Court. 

Public enterprises minister Leon Jooste has indicated employees of troubled Air Namibia would receive their full severance packages at the end of this month. 

Former director of the National Institute for Educational Development (NIED) Hertha Pomuti, who was one of the influential figures behind the new education curriculum, believes local universities should be in a position to grant admission to grade 11 pupils.