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Sovita Joshua, a self-styled ‘Queen of Gospel’, has a lot on her plate. Apart from spreading the Gospel through music, she is constantly creating content for social media that is changing people’s lives through her stories.

Trending singer Fernando Rube, popularly known as Bankx, recently released a single titled ‘Muharwa’, which is a fitting introduction to the music scene as a solo artist. The upcoming Afro-pop singer has joined a number of budding artists trying to make waves on the music scene.

Girley Jazama warns aspiring actors that the glitz and glamour of Hollywood is a distant dream in Namibia and that development and honing your skills is a never-ending pursuit. The actor and writer is a Hollywood immersive alumna who has been acting in film and theatre productions in Namibia for more than 15 years.

Ethiopian Airlines has signed an interline agreement with South African-based airline, Airlink. The agreement will enable passengers to enjoy seamless travel with a single ticket and lower fares between points within the carriers’ synergised networks.

The Peugeot Namibia assembly plant at Walvis Bay has to date sold only 22 vehicles with 131 units still in stock. In addition, the plant has employed 20 locals since its inception in December 2018 with ambitions to employ at least 50 full-time employees.

The overall budget for Namibia’s participation at the Dubai Expo 2020 is N$20 million. This includes the N$15 million advanced from the fiscus and N$5 million sourced from additional funding, including financial contributions received from various entities.

While interest in the factors which contribute to teenage pregnancy in schools and communities in general has proliferated recently, the irony is that very little of the debate on this topic is informed by what boys discuss in their free time about being a man, which influences them to engage in risky sexual activities and ergo teenage pregnancy.

Young people in Namibia are mostly ignored from home, community, school to the state. This is proven by the fact that problems involving young people are not taken seriously. It is either that ineffective measures are taken to apparently address such problems,

Saul’s experience on the road to Damascus can be mistaken for the classic story of repentance: the sinner who senses guilt opens himself to Jesus’s saving grace. But by his own light, and those of his community, Saul, the Jew from Tarsus, was doing no wrong in trying to suppress a descending movement within Judaism. It took Jesus to show him the error of his ways.

In recent years, funding for public higher education institutions has been dwindling, and the adverse effects of this have been there for everyone to see – poor research results, low faculty morale, high staff turnover and compromise on the quality of teaching.