Although this is a critical time that every town and settlement needs water to fulfil the basic hygiene requirements in light of Covid-19, the councillor of the Windhoek rural constituency Penina Inga-Ita is concerned Groot Aub settlement has been without water for the past eight days. Inga-Ita has urged the City of Windhoek to fill...
OMUTHIYA – A private school in Katima Mulilo, Mavuluma Adventist Private School, has suspended face-to-face teaching and learning following a suspected case of Covid-19. A Grade 3 pupil was reportedly in contact with one of the latest positive cases of a healthcare worker. In a notice, issued on Monday, school principal George Nchindo informed parents...
Elizabeth Hiyolwa NKURENKURU – During the site visit to government offices under construction in Nkurenkuru, constituency councillor Damian Nakambare opined those awarded State tenders should include locals when recruiting and that they should be paid decent wages. On the construction site of the regional police headquarters, there was a group of job-seekers, who have been...
Tobias Hainyeko constituency councillor Christoph Likuwa said an announcement this week by Khomas governor Laura McLeod-Katjirua that 65 toilets were built in the area in the current financial year, was misleading. The governor announced during her state of the region address on Tuesday that 65 toilets were constructed in the constituency through the provision of...
OKAHANDJA – The contentious and long-standing issues of land and genocide dominated speeches of speakers during the 50th commemoration of the death of revered nationalist and Ovaherero paramount chief Hosea Kutako. Chief Kutako, who is hailed as an indomitable nationalist, died at the age of 100 on 18 July 1970. President Hage Geingob in a...
Stefanus Nambara NKURENKURU – Workers at the Mangetti Cattle Ranch in Kavango West region peacefully demonstrated against their current employer Namibia Industrialisation Development Agency (NIDA) over what they term as ill-treatment. In a written petition, read by a senior labourer Garus Kasingana, the disgruntled workers indicated a number of concerns against the agency that manages...
Shoki Kandjimi Immigration officials, stationed at the Mohembo border post in the Kavango East region, have indicated they are ready to gradually reopen the border in line with the Covid-19 state of emergency regulations. Benedictus Shampapi, a senior immigration officer, said this recently during a visit by the National Council’s Standing Committee on Foreign...
The chairperson of Omagongo Cultural Festival organising committee, Ananias Nashilongo, says although the annual event has been called off, there will be no monetary refunds to those who made pledges and bought gala dinner tickets. The chairperson of the festival told New Era this week that the pandemic prompted the organising committee to cancel the event until...
WALVIS BAY – Covid-19 has claimed three more lives at Walvis Bay, bringing the total number of deaths in the country to seven. Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula yesterday announced one fatality was reported at the state hospital, while another two at a private facility. They are all males, aged 49, 58 and 64. Shangula...
Stefanus Nambara NKURENKURU – The Mbunza Traditional Authority has ordered the removal of an alleged illegal fence, which was erected earlier this year, to pave way for farmland at Tamesa village in the Kavango West region. The illegal fence is said to have affected three villages, including Karo, Pusa and Gcugcuma, as well as residents...