2018-10-26John Muyamba New Era regional reporter responsible for the two Kavangos, John Muyamba had an exclusive interview with the Agribusdev managing director, Petrus Uugwanga (PU) , who oversees the operations at all government green scheme projects. View more
2018-10-30John Muyamba RUNDU – Water supply to the riverside border town of Rundu has been discontinued due to debts of N$60 million accumulated over a two-year period, compelling residents to flock to fetch untreated water from the Kavango River where a child drowned late yesterday. View more
2018-10-30John Muyamba RUNDU - With unemployment taking its toll, leaving thousands of university graduates without jobs, the government allows many pensioners hang on to their jobs after they have turned 60 in the public service and SOEs, which critics say is unfair to youths who cannot not enter the job market. View more
2018-10-30John Muyamba RUNDU - Namibia Marriage Council (NAMC) held a Pre-Marriage Seminar and 1st anniversary celebration in Rundu for young people planning to tie the knot and those that wanting to make their marriages better. View more
2018-10-30John Muyamba RUNDU - Chairperson of the Kavango East Regional Farmers Union, Adolf Muremi, is urging local farmers to look into planting fruit trees on a large scale as a business venture. View more
2018-10-31John Muyamba BUNYA – Vice-President Nangolo Mbumba says Namibia must sow the seeds of peace in order to achieve food security as well as to improve nutrition and ‘leave no one behind”. View more
2018-11-02John Muyamba RUNDU – Government on Thursday reached an agreement with NamWater, to provide water to the Rundu Town Council, without council having to pay its monthly water bill of N$2 million, which would have amounted to N$6 million over three months while it puts its house in order. View more
2018-11-02John Muyamba There are several officials in the ranks of government and government enterprises, seemingly still clinging to their jobs after they have reached the retirement age and this has not gone well with unemployed university graduates, who feel their time has come to replace these old hands. View more
2018-11-05John Muyamba RUNDU - A decomposed body of a 59-year-old woman was discovered on Saturday at around 10h00 in Mpaga forest at Rupara village in Kavango West Region. View more
2018-11-06John Muyamba RUNDU - The community of Ndama, the sprawling and one of the biggest informal settlements in Rundu located south of the Trans Caprivi Highway, prompted the police to open a substation under a tree in order to cope with the increased daily crime in the area. View more
2018-11-06John Muyamba RUNDU - Friday was a good day in the streets of the recently formalised Kaisosi location as PSI Praktische Solidaritat International (PSI) Kaisosi branch collaborated with learners from Kaisosi Combined School, Sarusungu Combined and Wazungu High School in a clean-up campaign. View more
2018-11-06John Muyamba RUNDU – The German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) is planning to introduce a farmers’ business school to equip farmers with business skills in their different farming activities. View more
2018-11-07John Muyamba RUNDU - The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry (MAWF) recently decentralised its rural water supply and sanitation coordination services to regional councils in its quest to improve service. View more
2018-11-07John Muyamba RUNDU - Maria Thomas (25) from Herstyle Fashion Academy specialising in beauty products, make up and wigs is going around the country to give other youths training on how to make wigs. View more
2018-11-12John Muyamba KAYENGONA - The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr Bernhard Haufiku says although the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region is united and determined to end the scourge of malaria, there is a need for member states to work together and network. View more
2018-11-12John Muyamba SIKONDO - Sikondo green scheme project assistant manager Maxwell Nghidinwa says in order for the fresh produce market to be sustainable there is a need to have a supply chain where there are producers, wholesalers, retailers and for that supply chain to be respected for everyone to benefit. View more
2018-11-12John Muyamba NKURENKURU - Police in Kavango West are awaiting post-mortem results to ascertain the cause of death of a two-year-old girl who was found dead on Wednesday afternoon at the neighbour’s homestead where she was left by her mother to play with other young children. View more
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