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Following a recent massive increase in requests and to avoid further confusion, the industrialisation and trade ministry has clarified the difference between an Essential Service Certificate (ESC) and an Emergency Travel Permit (ETP). 

Despite its obvious benefits, the noble initiative of subsistence crop farming, which enables a family to feed right off the fields, have not been successfully replicated across the country. 

In the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak, which has claimed millions of lives, several people are paranoid and anxious about the virus. 

It is inevitable that we will face challenges throughout our lives, but what matters most is finding the strength to overcome our challenges and prove how strong we are.

Dyslexia is commonly misunderstood and identified as ‘just’ the inability to read and write. Normally a classic case of confusing your b and d. This general symptomatic assessment has had disadvantageous effects on dyslexics.

A few weeks ago, the South African Constitutional Court sent former President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma to prison to serve a 15-month sentence for having refused to co-operate with the Zondo Commission.  

The hearing to have two Fishrot fishing quotas corruption cases – Namgomar and Fishcor consolidated as one – has been put on hold.

Grade 12 candidates who wish to further their studies at the University of Namibia (Unam) will as from the 2022 academic year have to obtain 27 points in five subjects as per the revised Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate.

Covid-19 and the measures to curb its spread have impacted the operations of the Ministry of Mines and Energy. 

A 33-year-old unemployed woman from Onanyege village in the Omuthiya constituency is finding the going tough as she is raising her 12-year-old disabled daughter, who is in need of a wheelchair.