National

GOBABIS - A regional youth seminar on the 121 Rural Youth Enterprises initiative was held last week in Gobabis.
This is in line with the Cabinet directive that each of the 121 constituencies in the country registers a youth enterprise in accordance with the ‘Economic Advancement”, a pillar under the Harambee prosperity emphasising poverty eradication and creation of employment opportunities. This is through the establishment of enterprises thus leading to self-sustainability within the youth population.

WINDHOEK – The psychiatrist, who examined a 36-year-old mother accused of strangling her one-month-old baby to death, has declared her fit to stand trial.

RUNDU ‑ Vice President Nangolo Mbumba has commended NORED for the state-of-the-art regional office at Rundu that was constructed at a cost of N$30.7 million.

WINDHOEK – Two of the three men who were arrested in 2017 for their alleged involvement in an attempt to steal N$1.1 million from Air Namibia will stand trial next year. 

RUNDU - Minister of Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, Zephania Kameeta, launched food bank here at Sauyemwa. Sauyemwa is a recently formalised settlement where poverty is also widespread just like most of Rundu’s recently formalised localities like Ndama to name a few. Out of the 949 beneficiaries that were submitted by the committee, only 811 from Rundu

WINDHOEK - A 32-year-old woman was denied bail in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court after hitting a man from the same neighburhood with a stone to death, following an argument over alcohol in 8ste Laan last week. 

MILE 10 - Ncagcu Combined School in Kapako Constituency, Kavango West Region, on Friday received a new and fully fledged school block consisting of four classrooms and a storeroom from the government of Japan. 

OSHAKATI - At least 150 premature babies out of more than 1,000 admitted at the Oshakati Intermediate Hospital yearly do not survive.

WINDHOEK - Due to stock theft that has taken on plundering proportions, there is a tense situation in the Omaheke Region with cattle rustlers and farmworkers arming up against one another resembling the old Wild West seen in cowboy movies. 

ONGWEDIVA – A one-day workshop on sand mining here has resolved that all illegal sand mining activities be halted while the affected businessmen acquire environmental clearance certificates.