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Gerhard Ndafenongo is the current director of education for the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture under the Hardap Regional Council. 

A South African political analyst Mcebisi Ndletyana quoted by the Guardian newspaper narrated “that politicians are not elected on qualifications, but on the popularity of their party.

Namibians last week reacted with utter shock following a ruling by the Kasane Magistrate’s Court in Botswana, which absolved that country’s defence force of wrongdoing. 

Willem Veiko
Data Clerk | Ministry of Health and Social Services

Philantropist Fiedler Wolfgang officially handed over two blocks of four classrooms, two storage rooms and a standalone pre-primary class with its own kitchen and ablution facilities to the Mukekete Primary School in the Kavango West’s Mpungu circuit earlier this week. 

Education is the bedrock for propelling the next generation into a thriving future, and the launching pad for the prospective prosperity of a country and its people.

Inadequate resources in schools offering pre-vocational studies is hampering the execution of the curriculum reform, the minister of education Anna Nghipondoka revealed.

The Mandume Primary School, previously known as Owambo Gemeenskap Skool (Owambo Community School) in Windhoek, turned 60 years this week.

The Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund hopes an increased budget, to N$1.6 billion, to cater for the expected increased number of applicants during the 2022 academic year, will be approved.

In 2020, Cabinet directed the ministry of education to introduce KiSwahili into the Namibian school curriculum. However, there has been no progress made in the implementation of this plan to date.