Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

The heavy rains which have showered most parts of the country have promised good harvests to many, but pupils at the Twapandula Primary School in the Oshikoto region find the downpours unfortunately synonymous with misery and distress.

The new City of Windhoek leadership will have to quickly deal with an alleged administrative blunder that has been dragging on for over a decade.

A teacher is in police custody after a series of threats against his principal, colleagues and villagers. He also called his senior a witch, corrupt and stupid.

The Namibia Institute of Mining and Technology employees want the ministry of higher education to immediately discmiss their board of trustees.

A principal’s tough stance on parental involvement finally bore fruit after she took the drastic step of locking learners out of classes until their parents make arrangements in settling a N$300 contribution for stationery.

Executive education director Sanet Steenkamp advised learners who were improving their grades at other institutions, including Namcol, to proceed to the next level at the same institutions as the mainstream schools have run out of space. 

The Agro Marketing and Trade Agency (AMTA) and World Food Programme (WFP) Namibia last week agreed to cooperate and signed an agreement on relative and innovative ways of expanding the agribusiness markets and strengthening Namibia’s strategic food reserves.

After consultation with the Employment Service Board (ESB) the labour, industrial relations and employment creation minister, Utoni Nujoma, has reduced the prescribed threshold requirements for Designated Employers (DEs) from the current 25 to 10 employees.