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Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula has cautioned and advised health professionals to treat members of the public with the necessary courtesy and professionalism, and to offer good quality services.

Being a nurse is not just a job but should be a calling. A calling is a deep desire to devote one to serving people, according to the high values of the task or profession.  

With regional and municipal councils, it should be made clear here that an auditor does not dictate policy but only reviews the procedures and processes after the fact.

When a small group of young men living in Windhoek’s Old Location registered the African Publishing Company in October 1959, they aimed for “a vigorous instrument to promote the social and educational well-being of all inhabitants … irrespective of race, colour or creed”. 

Tertiary education in Namibia received another boost in the form of a state-of-the-art university that will be constructed in Eenhana by the International University of Management.

Deputy minister for marginalised communities Royal /Ui/o//oo has lamented the exclusion of marginalised groups’ mother tongues from school curricula.

Residents of the Goreangab informal settlement are furious with the Windhoek municipal council, whom they blame for the closure of a mobile police station on the outskirts of the city, thereby depriving residents of basic police services in a crime-infested area. 

Urban and rural development minister Erastus Uutoni on Monday ordered the Rundu Town Council to formalise the controversial Tumweneni area.

The cost of food has sustained an upward trend in recent months, making it difficult for local consumers to put something on the table.

One of the smallest local authorities, the Ruacana Town Council, is upbeat about its performance, asserting it did its best to deliver basic services to residents within its budgetary confines.