Adolf Kaure Newly elected Windhoek mayor Sakarias Uunona said that implementation of the Windhoek Municipal Council’s plans needs a modern approach that is aligned to governmental plans. The Swapo councillor said this during the City of Windhoek (CoW) office bearer’s elections recently held at the CoW council chambers. According to Uunona, the economy of Windhoek...
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Traditional peer group donates to pensioner
Lissony Njembo The Mukaa OtjaHosea Women National group from Okotjitituo, last week donated a well-constructed corrugated iron house to a destitute pensioner, Kamii Mbirijona in Coblenz village in the Okakarara constituency of Otjozundjupa region. Mukaa Hosea is a group of women married to men of the OtjaHosea Traditional Peer Group. The group, as per Ovaherero...
Shafudah opposes contempt of court order motion
Iuze Mukube Minister of Finance Ericah Shafudah has opposed a motion by a local microlender to be found in contempt of a court order that directed her to desist in interfering with the loading of new deductions onto the government’s Payroll Deduction Management System (PDMS). The motion filed on 11 December by local microlender, Entrepo...
Paramedic Low remembered
SWAKOPMUND – The community of Henties Bay and the wider Erongo region has hailed the death of paramedic Brian Low (60) as a great loss for the region’s emergency rescue services as well as for the Henties Bay community. Residents and emergency workers over the weekend paid tribute to Low, a well-known emergency responder and...
Informal settlement upgrade on track
WALVIS BAY – The National Housing Enterprise (NHE) says houses currently being constructed under the government’s National Informal Settlement Upgrading Project is progressing well, with several housing developments already at an advance stage. Officials from NHE visited the two sites in Swakopmund and Walvis Bay on Thursday, where construction of the houses is currently underway....
Education ministry warns against unregistered schools
The Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture has warned parentsand the public against unregistered institutions that claim to regulate home schooling and private schools in Namibia. In a statement issued yesterday, the ministry said it is concerned about the activities of an unregistered institution operating mainly in the Erongo region, which claims...
Namibia, Botswana push for Trans Kalahari Railway
Namibia and Botswana have pushed back the completion date of the Trans-Kalahari Railway feasibility study by two months, and both countries say the project remains firmly on track and central to regional trade ambitions. Speaking at Okahandja on Friday during the Joint Ministerial Committee (JMC) meeting, Minister of Works and Transport Veikko Nekundi said the...
‘Subsidised education funding models won’t be compromised’
Rudolf Gaiseb Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture Sanet Steenkamp has warned private tertiary institutions against raising their current fee structures. She said that intitutions doing so risk being disqualified from the subsidised tertiary education model. “We will not pay an increased new fee. We will pay what is in existence,” she...
Seal disposals irk coastal residents
SWAKOPMUND – Residents of Henties Bay are demanding answers after trucks carrying decomposed seal carcasses were seen dumping and burying the seals at the town over the weekend. Fears are that the dead seals will not only contaminate underground water at the town, but that it could also result in a health risk. Public outrage...
Know your Regional Councillors – Kavango West
Matheus David Kavango West is one of Namibia’s youngest and most diverse regions, created on 8 August 2013 when the former Kavango region was split into Kavango East and Kavango West. The regional capital is Nkurenkuru, which remains the only self-governed town in the region. Kavango West has a population of approximately 123 266 people...









