Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

American inventor and businessman Thomas Edison once said, “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”. 

The Helao Nafidi town council intends to relocate the local dumpsite after residents complained of the smoke produced when rubbish is burned. 

Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has visited Ompundja and Uuvudhiya constituencies to familiarise herself with the development in the two areas.

Founding President Sam Nujoma this week congratulated Chinese leader Xi Jinping on his re-election as the general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for another five years. 

The Namibia National Farmers Union (NNFU) president Jason Emvula is still on suspension since 24 August 2022. 

The Network of Locally Elected Women of Africa (REFELA) has elected new commissioners. The network’s two-day event, which started on Thursday in Rundu, also decided on a strategy to address the issue of street kids countrywide. 

Swapo vice presidential hopeful Pohamba Shifeta has said “teams” or “camps” created during the internal campaigns are causing division within the party.

Swapo secretary general Sophia Shaningwa has said the wide-reaching Fishrot corruption scandal, which implicates ruling party officials, took place before she became the party’s chief administrator. 

I grew up in the small town of Grootfontein and as a young man, I learned the value of finding solutions to others’ problems.