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WINDHOEK  –  Mobile Telecommunications Limited  (MTC) on Friday handed over 19 brand-new Toyota 2.4 Hilux single cab vehicles, to 19 lucky customers. In a spectacular handover ceremony, held in the Windhoek’s central business district, MTC officially handed over the car keys to the respective winners from its recently ended Recharge & Win Competition that ran as from the beginning of August until 30th August 2018.  

WINDHOEK - Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, on Friday said government intervention in the agricultural sector will continue to be substantial during the next three years, until 2021, government plans to invest about N$3.6 billion over the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) into the development of this sector. While speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony of the Asparagus Agro-Processing Factory, by Otjimbele Agriculture, at Ruacana in the Omusati Region, she said the sector in which Otjimbele has chosen to invest is a key sector of the economy due to its growth and employment-generation potential.

WINDHOEK - Entrepreneurship education is a key contributor to employment creation as it creates jobs for the youth when there are few available vacancies. This was one of the key messages on Thursday morning when Dr Becky Ndjoze-Ojo, Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Training and Innovation, addressed the opening of the 19th Annual Symposium by the Bank of Namibia.

WINDHOEK - What promised to be one of the best events of the year, the annual Spring Fiesta “All White Edition”, has lived up to its billing, attracting hundreds of partygoers donning white outfits.  

WINDHOEK – Last week Saturday, a new fitness entity christened Genesis Fitness opened to the communities of Katutura and Windhoek in general.

WINDHOEK - Trauma Healing Network recently trained 27 participants in the Colour-Me-Healed Programme. 
Trauma in people manifests in ways that most people do not even recognise as the effects of unresolved traumatic experiences. 

WINDHOEK – Plans are underway to introduce the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine in Namibia to state patients next year, Deputy Minister of Health and Social Services, Juliet Kavetuna, has revealed. 

Likeable, dignified, collected, distinguished and cool-headed – that is how I can sum up the character of the first Governor of Oshikoto Region, Reverend Hosea Nampala, affectionately known as HN (pronounced Hee Nee).

ONGWEDIVA – Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has urged the Agro-Marketing and Trade Agency (AMTA) to ensure that Namibia does not become a dumpsite for foreign produce by striving to develop capacity to withstand competition from foreign firms.

WINDHOEK - Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku on Friday dished out the umpteenth life sentence since the Supreme Court declared the increasing long direct jail terms by the High Court inhumane, in what has become to be known as the ‘Gaingob Judgment’.