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The Namibian
Mon 12 Aug 2013
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
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NEWS - NAMIBIA
| 2013-08-05
Govt air-lifts ailing Nujoma helper from Botswana
Clemans Miyanicwe
Ludwig Kanduketu Stanley
THE government last week dispatched a plane and a doctor to air-lift from Botswana Ludwig Kanduketu Stanley, the man who helped former President Sam Nujoma to escape into exile in 1960.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah confirmed that a plane was dispatched to air-lift Namibian citizen Stanley, who needed urgent medical attention, from Botswana to Namibia on Thursday. Nandi-Ndaitwah said Stanley collapsed in Botswana.
Although she could not say in which hospital Stanley was admitted, The Namibian understands that he is currently in the presidential suite of the Windhoek Central Hospital.
“Namibian government cares for its citizens,” Nandi-Ndaitwa told The Namibian on Friday adding that Stanley needed urgent rescue. Stanley gave Nujoma a lift when he was escaping from the then South West Africa on 01 March 1960. Stanley was born to an English father and a Herero mother in 1928 in Windhoek and grew up in Onbujonumbonde in Okakarara.
When he was 15, Stanley followed his father who had left for Botswana but returned to Namibia to join the late Chief Hosea Kutako’s council as a messenger or transport officer. Stanley’s role in assisting Nujoma to escape into exile put him on the apartheid police’s most wanted list.
Although she could not say in which hospital Stanley was admitted, The Namibian understands that he is currently in the presidential suite of the Windhoek Central Hospital.
“Namibian government cares for its citizens,” Nandi-Ndaitwa told The Namibian on Friday adding that Stanley needed urgent rescue. Stanley gave Nujoma a lift when he was escaping from the then South West Africa on 01 March 1960. Stanley was born to an English father and a Herero mother in 1928 in Windhoek and grew up in Onbujonumbonde in Okakarara.
When he was 15, Stanley followed his father who had left for Botswana but returned to Namibia to join the late Chief Hosea Kutako’s council as a messenger or transport officer. Stanley’s role in assisting Nujoma to escape into exile put him on the apartheid police’s most wanted list.
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