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WINDHOEK - Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) secretary  Ephraim Nekongo feels the time has come that government start buying goods locally instead of importing them and essentially exporting jobs at the expense of Namibians.

ONDANGWA - The Deputy Minister of Education, Arts and Culture Anna Nghipondoka got the shock of her life at the ineptitude caused by teacher truancy at Andimba Toivo ya Toivo Secondary School where teachers had skipped giving classes.

WINDHOEK - The Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) yesterday expressed its anger at the City of Windhoek’s alleged lack of leadership and ongoing disunity among its councillors. 

Musician Oliver Mtukudzi has passed away,  according to multiple news sources in Zimbabwe.

WINDHOEK - Swapo secretary general Sophia Shaningwa yesterday emphasised that positions in the party are not for sale and members should not wait for elections to pay huge subscription amounts only for the purpose of securing positions in the ruling party.

WINDHOEK - Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) announced 111 new sites as part of the ongoing phase one of the 081Every1 project, are scheduled to go live by the end of March when phase one is completed.  At a press briefing held yesterday, the company announced 41 sites of phase one were commissioned and on air since December 2018; while civil works for 64 sites have been completed, and for 47 sites progressively ongoing to beat phase one’s deadline – the end of March.

WINDHOEK – Struggling MTC Namibia Premiership club Unam FC mentor Woody Jacobs will tonight face yet another test of character when his charges square off against a rejuvenated Tigers outfit, with a win being the only prudent outcome that will be good enough to lift Unam from the bottom of the table.

WINDHOEK – Outspoken president of the Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC) Abner “Big Daddy” Xoagub, has expressed serious concern over the tortoise-pace at which the world’s football governing body Fifa is going about installing the eagerly awaited Normalisation Committee at the besieged Namibia Football Association (NFA).

WINDHOEK - The next Bank Windhoek Long Course Gala is slated for this weekend at the Olympia swimming pool in the capital. 

WINDHOEK – Cash loan businesses in the country have thus far been silent on the new Microlending Act, 2018 (Act No. 7 of 2018) which came into force on 15 October 2018.