Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

The proliferation of information and the paradigm shifts occurring with technology have various impacts on learners in informal and formal education, respectively. 

The education ministry this week made startling revelations with regards to the effects of digital gaps on e-learning, especially in rural schools and remote communities across the country during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Asser Uakondjisa Kauazunda - Theatre technical coordinator Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture’s Directorate of Arts

Parents of learners at village schools in the Tsumkwe constituency are concerned that teachers who are sleeping in tents because of a dearth of proper accommodation, would seek new pastures.

Two senior officials of the Walvis Bay municipality were internally charged with negligence and gross misconduct last week. This was confirmed by internal sources at the municipality earlier this week, although the councillors opted not to comment on the matter.

Although the Covid-19 pandemic caused significant hardship to Namibians, the Development Bank of Namibia has reported an improvement and a resumption of economic activities and growth.

The police in Kavango West are investigating a case of a 25-year-old man, who was discovered dead at a campsite in Nkurenkuru, where a pastor allegedly camps with his followers who seek prayer and healing.

Self-proclaimed foreign exchange trader Michael Amushelelo says the preservation order issued by the High Court in 2020 against his bank accounts and properties was illegal as it was not issued in court.

A former learner at Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo Secondary School in the Oshana region, who was raped by a taxi driver while on her way to school five years ago, has spoken out after the perpetrator was sentenced to an effective 10 years imprisonment.

Russia took a kind gesture in the 1990s and voluntary withdrew of armed forces from Europe.  In response, Western countries violated their promises not to expand NATO to the east and conducted five waves of expansion, bringing its military infrastructure closer to Russian borders critically.