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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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| 2013-08-06
Erongo farms struggle with water shortage
Clemans Miyanicwe
ABOUT 20 farms in Daures Constituency, Erongo Region, are struggling with water supply after wells went dry.
Some of the farmers have been writing letters to the constituency councillor, Ernst Katjiku, alerting him to the dry situation on the farms.
Daures constituency councillor, Ernst Katjiku, admitted to The Namibian that there are some farms in the area that have had no water for quite some time.
Katjiku said although some farms are dry, others have water but their problems are being caused by aging infrastructure. He added that there are cases where farms have water but it’s not for human consumption.
The councillor, however, said some of the farms have been listed as beneficiaries of the Namibian-German Special Initiative Programme (NGSIP) which intends to fund the drilling of boreholes in the constituency.
“The NGSIP will assist them but my office doesn’t even know when the work will commence,” Katjiku said. One of the affected farmers, Siegfried //Geiseb of Post Number 54 of Kudubis, about 45 kilometres outside Usakos said all the surrounding farms are struggling with water problems.
In his case, //Geiseb said their water problem has been going on for the past 15 years even after he spent N$3 000 three years ago to rehabilitate his well. “We take our livestock to Post 3 about eight kilometres from our farm every day to get water,” //Geiseb said.
He also said the water at Post 3 is not suitable for human consumption and farmers, therefore, have to travel another eight kilometres to Tsourob to collect water.
“This water problem discourages farmers like us. We try everything possible and hope the problem will be solved,” said //Geiseb.
NGSIP communications advisor, Martin Tjituka, said a landmark N$47 million water supply project will be implemented in 12 constituencies since the tenders have already been awarded. Tjituka said NGSIP has already undertaken 40 borehole rehabilitation projects in the first phase with a further 80 boreholes expected to be rehabilitated in the second phase.
Some of the farmers have been writing letters to the constituency councillor, Ernst Katjiku, alerting him to the dry situation on the farms.
Daures constituency councillor, Ernst Katjiku, admitted to The Namibian that there are some farms in the area that have had no water for quite some time.
Katjiku said although some farms are dry, others have water but their problems are being caused by aging infrastructure. He added that there are cases where farms have water but it’s not for human consumption.
The councillor, however, said some of the farms have been listed as beneficiaries of the Namibian-German Special Initiative Programme (NGSIP) which intends to fund the drilling of boreholes in the constituency.
“The NGSIP will assist them but my office doesn’t even know when the work will commence,” Katjiku said. One of the affected farmers, Siegfried //Geiseb of Post Number 54 of Kudubis, about 45 kilometres outside Usakos said all the surrounding farms are struggling with water problems.
In his case, //Geiseb said their water problem has been going on for the past 15 years even after he spent N$3 000 three years ago to rehabilitate his well. “We take our livestock to Post 3 about eight kilometres from our farm every day to get water,” //Geiseb said.
He also said the water at Post 3 is not suitable for human consumption and farmers, therefore, have to travel another eight kilometres to Tsourob to collect water.
“This water problem discourages farmers like us. We try everything possible and hope the problem will be solved,” said //Geiseb.
NGSIP communications advisor, Martin Tjituka, said a landmark N$47 million water supply project will be implemented in 12 constituencies since the tenders have already been awarded. Tjituka said NGSIP has already undertaken 40 borehole rehabilitation projects in the first phase with a further 80 boreholes expected to be rehabilitated in the second phase.
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