Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Despite the crippling drought decimating livestock in the Kunene region, many women living on the outskirts of Opuwo have ventured into small-scale crop farming for both their own consumption and to sell their produce to the community. 

The Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) is against the deportation of Angolans without proper documentation from Namibia, saying their country welcomed Namibians with open arms during the liberation struggle.

The hearing to determine the legality of the Squatters Proclamation AG, 21 of 1985, is scheduled to take place in June in the Windhoek High Court. During the status hearing yesterday, Judge Kobus Miller gave an order that the parties in the matter should file relevant documents on or before 24 March. 

The Putuavanga Senior Secondary School in Opuwo in the Kunene region which last year secured ninth position in the grade 12 high level examination said they have not done anything out of the ordinary other than to supplement their teaching with afternoon classes. 

Young traders at Opuwo have accused the government of robbing them of a chance to create employment and subsequently uplift their livelihoods after their contraband goods were confiscated by customs officials last Friday.

Swarms of migratory locusts last weekend destroyed crop fields in Kavango East and West regions, leaving subsistence farmers in some areas of the regions in disarray and hopeless. 

Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula yesterday tried to tamp down fears about the local discovery of the coronavirus variant from South Africa.

President Hage Geingob believes the continuous classification of Namibia by the World Bank as an upper-middle-income country was working against it when it comes to procuring vaccines to strengthen the fight against Covid-19.

Government has gazetted a far-reaching cost-containment for public office-bearers which will include ministers and their deputies sharing an off-road official vehicle unlike in the past when they were each allocated a 4x4. 

The wet landed horse mackerel sector has scored a small victory following an announcement by fisheries minister Albert Kawana that no wet quota would be converted to freezer.