2021-12-15Aletta Shikololo For the past few years, Namibia has seen a drastic upward change in youth empowerment and more young people taking up spaces in decision-making positions. View more
2021-12-16Aletta Shikololo The Namibian Film Commission (NFC) has recently announced the Namibia Oscars selection committee did not submit a film to the 94th Academy Awards for the International Feature Film category, as none of the applications met the qualifying criteria as set out by the Academy. View more
2021-12-17Aletta Shikololo A sea of shacks made from corrugated iron, wooden boards and sheets of plastic, pans and pots covering holes and collecting water under leaky roofs. This is Babylon. View more
2022-01-04Aletta Shikololo The Covid-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the education sector since 2020, but this year is set to kick off amid a litany of fresh challenges like the surge in positive cases. View more
2022-01-05Aletta Shikololo The Ministry of Education has announced that the incoming Grade 11 learners of 2022 (Grade 10 cohort of 2021) who meet the promotion requirements will only return to schools and hostels once the examinations are completed. View more
2022-01-06Aletta Shikololo The acting chief executive officer of the Namibia Drydock and Ship Repair Company, Heritha Nankole Muyoba, died in a car crash near Kongola in the Zambezi region yesterday morning. View more
2022-01-07Aletta Shikololo The Business and Intellectual Property Authority is urging business owners, especially those with dormant close corporations and who do not intend to conduct business in the future, to rather deregister their entities. View more
2022-01-12Aletta Shikololo As students ready for the start of the 2022 academic year, including Nanso’s 17th national congress, the organisation’s acting president Gregory Madi is hopeful the congress will address the needs of students in the country. View more
2022-01-12Aletta Shikololo The Innocentia Likoro Kindergarten is the only kindergarten in the Makuvi village, some 140 km east of Rundu, but most parents are hesitant to send their children there because of the run-down condition of the thatch-hut structure. View more
2022-01-14Aletta Shikololo Local comedian George Shinana, publicly known as the ‘King Tee Dee imitator’, was appointed this week as the first ambassador to Kadhila Amoomo Legal Practitioners. View more
2022-01-25Aletta Shikololo As government embarks on transforming the education sector and embracing changes, the urgent need to invest in inclusive digital learning technology that benefits all Namibian children is all too clear. View more
2022-01-26Aletta Shikololo The Namibia National Students Organisation recently launched one of its flagship projects, ‘Access to basic education’ campaign, at the Dibasen Junior Secondary School in the Erongo region. View more
2022-01-28Aletta Shikololo In 2020, Cabinet directed the ministry of education to introduce KiSwahili into the Namibian school curriculum. However, there has been no progress made in the implementation of this plan to date. View more
2022-01-28Aletta Shikololo The Mandume Primary School, previously known as Owambo Gemeenskap Skool (Owambo Community School) in Windhoek, turned 60 years this week. View more
2022-02-01Aletta Shikololo A surge in crime in the Rocky Crest residential area of Windhoek has raised concerns that it could soon challenge the unenviable title of the city’s most unsafe location. View more
2022-02-02Aletta Shikololo On Friday, New Era reported about 28-year-old Rauna Nepolo, who was admitted to the Windhoek Central Hospital last Wednesday due to an intrauterine foetal death (IUFD). View more
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