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 SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c
 Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair?
 Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform.
 SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam
 Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r
 Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p
 SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha
 Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in
 Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a
 SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for
 Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont
 Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
POLL
What do you think of the renaming and addition of regions and constituencies?

1. Long overdue

2. A waste of money

3. We have bigger issues

4. I don't care


Results so far:
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NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
SEVERE
In this photo supplied by UNICEF, a child holds a goat kid in the Okangwati Village in Kunene Region. Children suffer most from the drought which is sweeping across the country. Even though Namibia is prone to droughts, this one is said to be the worst in three decades. An estimated 778 000 Namibians, which equates to a third of the country’s population, are either severely or moderately food-insecure. To cope with the situation, families are having to sell assets such as livestock, reduce the number of meals in a day and many are migrating to cities to find work. Nampa-AP
www.weatherphotos.co.za

Windhoek 7° 24° 0mm
Walvis Bay 8° 22° 0mm
Oshakati 8° 31° 0mm
Keetmanshoop 1° 17° 0mm
Grootfontein 2° 27° 0mm
Gobabis 5° 24° 0mm
(August 12)
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NEWS
 NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
!Nami≠Nüs residents against new name
SHINOVENE IMMANUEL and LUQMAN CLOETE

SOME residents of !Nami≠Nüs (formerly Luderitz) in the //Karas Region said they will petition against the town’s new name today because they were not consulted. Read more...
 NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
Off-duty officer shoots man dead
AN off-duty police officer shot and killed 22-year-old Joel Martin on Saturday in Shandumbala, Windhoek. Read more...
 NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
Ohangwena farmer sues to keep fence
AN OHANGWENA Region farmer is suing the Ohangwena Communal Land Board over the removal of the fences he erected to enclose more than 4 000 hectares of supposed communal land. Read more...
 NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
Voters object to Ndjarakana’s reappointment
THE 2009 election saga has come back to haunt Moses Ndjarakana, the then Director of Elections, after three objections against his reappointment were lodged with the Electoral Commission of Namibia a day before he was interviewed as one of the five shortlisted candidates for the commission’s top job. Read more...
 NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
WAD urges govt to hasten 50/50 representation
THE Women’s Action for Development (WAD)’s Executive Director, Veronica de Klerk, has called on women to fill up the 50% gender representation quota announced by the Swapo Party for all its local, regional and national level structures. Read more...
 NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
Taxi driver arrested for burglary
CITY Police have arrested two suspects, one of them a taxi driver, and are hunting for the third after they allegedly broke into a pharmacy and doctor’s consultation rooms in Katutura in the early hours of Friday where they stole electronic goods worth N$80 000. Read more...
 NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
Keetmanshoop works on damning report
THE Keetmanshoop Town Council has taken drastic measures to implement the findings of the ministerial report which concluded that there was disharmony between councillors and administrators. Read more...
 NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
Govt to build 10 000 houses countrywide
GOVERNMENT through the Ministry of Regional, Local Government, Housing and Rural Development (MRLGHRD) has plans to build more than 10,000 houses in informal settlements within the next 16 months. Read more...
 NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
Govt mulls new resettlement criterion
THE government is in the process of introducing a new resettlement farm allocation criterion to cater for the needs of the poor. Read more...
 NAMIBIA | 2013-08-12
Ex-couple’s N$17m fraud case postponed
A CASE in which a former employee of a drilling company and her ex-husband are charged with fraud allegedly involving a massive N$17 million was postponed for two months in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Read more...