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WINDHOEK –In line with stimulating youth entrepreneurship and addressing the constraint of access to finance, a skills-based lending facility has been introduced at Development Bank of Namibia (DBN). This is according to the Harambee Prosperity Plan progress report dated April 2019. 

WALVIS BAY - The #Khaxab Royal house of Chief Samuel #Khaxab says the Topnaar chieftaincy rightfully belongs to the #Khaxab and it should be restored as such by appointing him as the rightful person to take over from the late Chief Seth Kooitjie.

SWAKOPMUND - The new container terminal constructed at a cost of N$4 billion at Walvis Bay  will be commissioned within three months. Namport upon inquiry yesterday told New Era the new container terminal is currently 96 percent complete with only the final touches being added to the mega project.

RUNDU – Shadikongoro government irrigation project is about to reap what it sowed. According to its manager Daniel Marais the project expects to soon harvest about 3 500 tonnes of maize that they planted on  January 23. 

WINDHOEK- The Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development has also not been spared in terms of budget cuts for the 2019/20 financial year - a situation described to have adverse implications towards Namibia’s industrialisation drive.

As fate would have it, my friend of close to fifty years, Kavazeua Ngaruka, passed on, on 28th March 2019 (that happens to be my wife’s birthday) and was laid to rest on 06th April 2019 (one day short of my birthday, which falls on 07th April).

WINDHOEK - Namibia’s very own Dr Japie van Zyl, a Solar System Exploration Director at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), has reliably informed this publication that last month they detected the first Mars quake.

WINDHOEK - The University of Namibian offers support and confidentiality through its counselling services to students who have suffered sexual assaults.

KEETMANSHOOP- Julian Bloodstaan, a part-time communal farmer in the //Kharas Region has not yet given up hope, despite losing more than two-thirds of his livestock.

KATIMA MULILO - The Deputy Director of Land Reform in Zambezi Region, Charles Musiyalike, is at the centre of a land dispute at Mumona and Nechakala cattle posts in Lusese area.