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Opinion: Monthly breast exams a necessity
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Opinion: Monthly breast exams a necessity

It is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Do your breast exam monthly, yourself. Find out from your parents if any of your close relatives had breast cancer, and if they had, make sure that 10  years before the age at which they had the cancer, you get a full examination done at your doctor. My condolences to all those who have lost a loved one to breast cancer.

Cancer Apple Project goes digital
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Cancer Apple Project goes digital

Bank Windhoek and the Cancer Association of Namibia (CAN) have revamped and digitalised the 2021 Bank Windhoek Cancer Apple Project via e-Apple platform where people can buy apples and apple juice through the online application.

Education to take over CLaSH
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Education to take over CLaSH

After nearly three decades of rendering support services to the hearing-impaired children in Namibia, the Association for Children with Language, Speech and Hearing Impairments of Namibia (CLaSH) is closing shop at the end of this year.

Ondera farm dormant amid electricity struggles
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Ondera farm dormant amid electricity struggles

The once flourishing government resettlement farm of Ondera, about 70 kilometres north of Tsumeb has turned into a shadow of itself. Agricultural production has come to a halt because of the inability of the occupants to pay the electricity bill. Farm Ondera is a combination of two farms - Ondera and Komeva.

Namwandi distances himself from Limkokwing 
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Namwandi distances himself from Limkokwing 

Former education minister David Namwandi has vehemently denied any involvement in the Malaysian-owned Limkokwing University saga. Namwandi, minister of higher education Itah Kandjii-Murangi and former Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) CEO Hilya Nghiwete have so far all been accused of facilitating the establishment of the university, in a document circulating on social media this

Two murdered in Oshikoto on Monday
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Two murdered in Oshikoto on Monday

A 43-year-old woman was beaten to death by her boyfriend on Monday at Onethika village in the Oshikoto region. The 36-year-old suspect is a cattle herder who hails from Mpungu in the Kavango West region.