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National Council Chairperson Embarks on Outreach visits to Regions
14 Feb

National Council Chairperson Embarks on Outreach visits to Regions

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Martin Endjala The Chairperson of the National Council has started a regional outreach programme to promote an inclusive legislative process in the regions of Otjozondjuba and Kavango East. The visits started in October last year in the Zambezi Region. Lukas Sinimbo Muha, has earmarked the two regions for the first round of regional engagements that will end on 27 February. The initiative is part of the outreach program activities as set out in the council’s strategic plan to enhance public and key stakeholder participation in the legislative process. The visits were announced by the National Council’s public relation officer, Momly…
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NSFAF aims to prioritise full funding of critical fields…….no new funding for pilots
14 Feb

NSFAF aims to prioritise full funding of critical fields…….no new funding for pilots

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Tujoromajo Kasuto THE Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) Acting Chief Executive Officer Kennedy Kandume says that in future, the fund will consider redirecting funds from less impactful fields of study such as business administration to areas with critical shortage such as medical specialisation. Kandume points out that there are many courses that NSFAF finance that are not critically needed, citing the fact that in certain industries/fields, such as business administration, there is an over supply of graduates resulting in a high number of unemployed graduates. “There are certain areas that we have overtrained,” he says, “but assessments still need…
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Close to a Billion spent on COVID-19………no abuses recorded
14 Feb

Close to a Billion spent on COVID-19………no abuses recorded

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Eba Kandovazu THE Ministry of Health and Social Services says it has spent a total N$956 536 385 on COVID-19 since March 2020, when pandemic was first detected in Namibia. The ministry’s Executive Director Ben Nangombe told the Windhoek Observer newspaper that the cost includes acquisition of medical supplies such as vaccines, medical equipment, recruitment of staff and infrastructure development. The amount also includes the PCR tests for suspected COVID-19 cases and transport. Queried on whether the government overspent, Nangombe said “the government availed resources to address the COVID-19 crisis and the Ministry sourced commodities within the availed resources”. Nangombe…
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Missing sailor complained about sickness
11 Feb

Missing sailor complained about sickness

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Eba Kandovazu JONAS HEITA, the employee of Hangana Seafood, who has been declared missing at sea on complained about not feeling well on Sunday. Police say Heita’s sniffing packet was stolen that same day. Nampol Erongo spokesperson Ileni Shapumba said after complaining about being sick, Heita was told to take his medicine and was frequently checked on by his colleagues. Shapumba explained that the vessel left the Walvis Bay port on 4 February 2022 and was due to return on Sunday, 13 February. “The following day on Monday, he again complained that he was too hot and blurry. The captain…
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LPM returns favour to Karas, Hardap regions….offers N$500 000 scholarships
07 Feb

LPM returns favour to Karas, Hardap regions….offers N$500 000 scholarships

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Eba Kandovazu The announcement by the Landless People’s Movement of providing scholarships to students in Karas and Hardap has invited mixed reactions from their rival political parties. LPM’s Utaara Mootu announced the news of the scholarships on social media, with critics saying the move is tribalist, aimed at benefiting only those in the southern part of the country. The two regional councils controlled LPM will provide 500-thousand dollars worth of scholarships to young people from the two regions. The secretary general of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), Manuel Ngaringombe says that the decision by Kharas and Hardap regional councils to…
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10 Dec

Enters the vicious cycle of unholy coalitions crumbling to the detriment of local residents

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LATELY there have been at the local authorities level too much ado about nothing as the various political parties and formations jostle for positions on the management committees of the various hung councils. As much as these elections were accompanied with much excitement, Yours Truly Ideologically cannot but be less excited about their outcome, the hung councils. Because in the final analysis these changes cannot be anything else but a zero some game accompanied by superficial visions and ideals. For democracy yes one may put some premium on these elections and subsequent recurring elections of the management committees. But in…
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10 Dec

End the global war on our bodies

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Alna Dall and Nyasha Chingore* As the world ends commemoration of the 30th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism to end violence against women this week, it is apparent that sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) continues to have far reaching consequences, not only for survivors, but on the entire society. To appreciate how SGBV has affected global societies and economies over the last 30 years, an understanding of how women and other vulnerable and marginalised populations including the key populations have been systematically denied their rights to bodily autonomy and integrity (BAI) is needed. Unless BAI and sexual and reproductive…
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04 Dec

Radical socio-economic transformation attainable with right class consciousness

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To give Namibia’s early resistance advocates, none of whom exist today, and latter day liberation/freedom proponents and agitators if not agents provocateurs, and today’s agents of change, whoever they are and may be, and/or ought to be, the benefit of the doubt, there can be no denying that the country’s basic document, the Constitution, which paved the way or heralded the country’s independence in 1990, is as good as could have been expected in its times. Yours Truly Ideologically cannot but re-emphasise the notion in its times. These times being nationalist political times, when the pre-occupation was national colonial resistance…
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28 Nov

Black faces on company, corporate boards for what sake and at what expense?

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Yours Truly Ideologically cannot but just welcome the information in the Simonis Storm Securities revealing that the Nictus Holdings Limited is the only listed Namibian company without any previously disadvantaged person on its board of directors for what it is, just information. Because Yours Truly Ideologically has no illusion what Nictus is, has been and would for a long time be. A bastion of Afrikaner empowerment and capitalism. Thus in the final analysis this information is just academic. Academic and of interest if at all to policymakers and politicians only to gather dusts like many others in government offices’ shelves.…
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NamibRe Commemorates 20 years of Being the Preferred reinsurer
25 Nov

NamibRe Commemorates 20 years of Being the Preferred reinsurer

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Namibia National Reinsurance Corporation Limited “NamibRe” celebrated its 20th Anniversary earlier this November 2021 with its local and international partners and stakeholder in the beautiful town of the Erongo Region, Swakopmund, Namibia. As part of 20th Anniversary celebration, NamibRe hosted delegates from across the African continent and beyond, to launch the Inaugural NamibRe CEO Roundtable. The event was attended by more than (100) hundred delegates, most of whom attended in person while the others attended the event virtually. In total, the event was attanded by delegates from more than eight (8) African countries and the middle east. The countries include:…
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