WALVIS BAY – At a time when many families struggle to put food on their tables, Walvis Bay businessman Collin April continues to make a difference through his annual festive season feeding initiative. Through the Collin April Foundation and its partners, more than 200 people are reached every festive season through food distribution programmes aimed...
Iuze Mukube An urgent application of Entrepo Finance requesting to hold finance minister Ericah Shafudah for contempt of court in the event she fails to comply with a court order requiring her to detail, under oath, how to implement a fully functional payroll deduction management system, was dismissed on Monday. Windhoek High Court Judge Lotta...
Hilma Nalupe The Swakopmund Junior Town Council (JTC) held its annual community outreach project, Christmas in a Shoebox, at the beginning of this month. The initiative relies on community participation and encourages learners and residents of Swakopmund to donate essential items such as sanitary products and toys packed in shoeboxes. These boxes are later distributed...
Adolf Kaure Newly elected Windhoek mayor Sakarias Uunona said that implementation of the Windhoek Municipal Council’s plans needs a modern approach that is aligned to governmental plans. The Swapo councillor said this during the City of Windhoek (CoW) office bearer’s elections recently held at the CoW council chambers. According to Uunona, the economy of Windhoek...
Lissony Njembo The Mukaa OtjaHosea Women National group from Okotjitituo, last week donated a well-constructed corrugated iron house to a destitute pensioner, Kamii Mbirijona in Coblenz village in the Okakarara constituency of Otjozundjupa region. Mukaa Hosea is a group of women married to men of the OtjaHosea Traditional Peer Group. The group, as per Ovaherero...
Iuze Mukube Minister of Finance Ericah Shafudah has opposed a motion by a local microlender to be found in contempt of a court order that directed her to desist in interfering with the loading of new deductions onto the government’s Payroll Deduction Management System (PDMS). The motion filed on 11 December by local microlender, Entrepo...
SWAKOPMUND – The community of Henties Bay and the wider Erongo region has hailed the death of paramedic Brian Low (60) as a great loss for the region’s emergency rescue services as well as for the Henties Bay community. Residents and emergency workers over the weekend paid tribute to Low, a well-known emergency responder and...
WALVIS BAY – The National Housing Enterprise (NHE) says houses currently being constructed under the government’s National Informal Settlement Upgrading Project is progressing well, with several housing developments already at an advance stage. Officials from NHE visited the two sites in Swakopmund and Walvis Bay on Thursday, where construction of the houses is currently underway....
The Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture has warned parentsand the public against unregistered institutions that claim to regulate home schooling and private schools in Namibia. In a statement issued yesterday, the ministry said it is concerned about the activities of an unregistered institution operating mainly in the Erongo region, which claims...
Namibia and Botswana have pushed back the completion date of the Trans-Kalahari Railway feasibility study by two months, and both countries say the project remains firmly on track and central to regional trade ambitions. Speaking at Okahandja on Friday during the Joint Ministerial Committee (JMC) meeting, Minister of Works and Transport Veikko Nekundi said the...