The Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA), together with its partners (African Union Commission (AUC), the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), held the Continental Africa Creates Jobs (ACJ) virtual conference on 3-4 November 2021. The theme of the continental dialogue was ‘Driving a responsive and agile skills and jobs agenda for economic growth for African Youth’.
A 31-year-old man is recuperating in the Oshakati Intermediate Hospital following a mob attack after he allegedly stabbed another man to death on Saturday in the Uuvudhiya area at around 18h00.
A devastating shack fire claimed the lives of a woman and her two grandchildren on Friday evening in Okombahe in the Erongo region.
A47-year-old woman from Five Rand location in Okahandja, who sells vetkoek, kapana and oshikundu to feed her six children, is pleading for public assistance after her house was gutted by fire last Tuesday.
Staffers of the Ekulo Senior Secondary School in the Oshikoto region have applauded Build it for the donation of a 5 000-litre water tank.
“People can protest in the streets but if you and I are not ready to join all those who speak out on GBV, we can call this nation a doomed nation,” she said while speaking at a GBV event in Aroab in the //Kharas region.
A 14-year-old learner of the Schuckmansburg Secondary School in the Luhonono area of Zambezi region committed suicide on Friday reportedly after she was asked to return a cell phone stolen from a teacher at the school.
The Windhoek High Court yesterday granted the State leave to appeal a murder sentence of a Windhoek resident, whose 10-year sentence was wholly suspended for five years by the local regional court.
A resident of Mpungu, who attacked and murdered his grandfather with an axe and a panga – and is now seeking to appeal his conviction and sentence of 25 years, had his case postponed to early next year.
Swapo parliamentarian Lucia Witbooi says education remains the greatest equaliser and a learning process in which knowledge, skills and habits are passed on within generations.