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Court dismisses Entrepo’s application 
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Court dismisses Entrepo’s application 

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...

Junior council spreads Christmas joy 
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Junior council spreads Christmas joy 

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...

Rupara health centre without doctor
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Rupara health centre without doctor

Lylie Joel RUPARA – The Rupara Health Centre in the Musese Constituency of the Kavango West Region is operating without a permanently stationed doctor, leaving the facility to rely on doctors who visit once a week. Registered Nurse and acting nurse in charge of the health centre, Chrispinus Kanyetu Kanyengo told Nampa on Monday that...

Traditional peer group donates to pensioner 
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Traditional peer group donates to pensioner 

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...

Shafudah opposes contempt of court order motion
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Shafudah opposes contempt of court order motion

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...

Paramedic Low remembered
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Paramedic Low remembered

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...

Informal settlement upgrade on track
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Informal settlement upgrade on track

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....

Education ministry warns against unregistered schools
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Education ministry warns against unregistered schools

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, Botswana push for Trans Kalahari Railway
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Namibia, Botswana push for Trans Kalahari Railway

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...

‘Subsidised education funding models won’t be compromised’
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‘Subsidised education funding models won’t be compromised’

Rudolf Gaiseb  Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture Sanet Steenkamp has warned private tertiary institutions against raising their current fee structures. She said that intitutions doing so risk being disqualified from the subsidised tertiary education model.  “We will not pay an increased new fee. We will pay what is in existence,” she...