ONDANGWA - Community members in Ondangwa have damaged the sewage pond embankments located in Extension 9 (Ondhila). The pond was designed to hold sewage from nearby households when toilets are flushed. The waste is transported by water using gravity and flows into designated sewage ponds.
Namibia yesterday again condemned Israel’s continued occupation and discrimination of Palestinians after a pre-dawn Israeli strike killed 13 people, including several children.
The visit of a parliamentary committee to the Daures constituency has opened a Pandora’s box of mining irregularities and deficient regulation in the area. Traditional authorities likewise agreed that they failed their communities by accepting allowances from mining companies.
The mines ministry’s decision to first declare a Chinese mining company’s licence as satisfactory before abruptly cancelling it days later, has caused the company to seek the court’s intervention.
The growth in healthcare costs in recent years has become an issue of concern to the domestic medical aid funding industry.
The phenomenon of the internet and digital technology has opened a new world of interaction and information sharing. However, it has also widened the gap between the haves and have-nots, and provided governments with new ways of exerting control over their citizens, especially in Africa.
Community media gives a voice to communities and allows them to define their path. It operates in the interests of the community it serves and creates a platform for freedom of expression.
After decades of enjoying a monopoly in the local meat processing sector, agriculture minister Calle Schlettwein believes it is high time for the Meat Corporation of Namibia to re-strategise and reposition itself as a modern entity to counter escalating competition.
Zambezi Police over the weekend ceased several illegal items, which were either smuggled into Namibia or were about to be smuggled out of Namibia into neighbouring Zambia at an ungazetted point of entry.
Legal trouble seems to follow British businessman and murder-accused, Harvey Boulter everywhere he goes as a group of Emiratis claim he defrauded them out of more than N$56.9 million.