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The Namibian
Tue 13 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
| 2013-08-07
Govt to provide ‘matangara’ as drought relief to the needy
Tripe (matangara)
• TJIKUNDA KULUNGA
OPUWO – Deputy Prime Minister Marco Hausiku says the Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco) has been contracted to provide drought relief beneficiaries with meat products to supplement the maize meal they receive.
OPUWO – Deputy Prime Minister Marco Hausiku says the Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco) has been contracted to provide drought relief beneficiaries with meat products to supplement the maize meal they receive.
Hausiku told the Governor of Kunene Josua //Hoebeb and regional councillors of this development at an emergency meeting held at Opuwo where he had gone to familiarise himself with the drought situation in the Kunene Region.
The region has been hit hard by drought for two consecutive years.
“Meatco will provide the drought relief programme with tinned meat products and cattle matangara (offals),” Hausiku stated.
The Deputy PM thus called on beneficiaries to appreciate what they will be provided with and not to be selective, adding that these products are not being offered to them ‘for pleasure’ but due to the emergency situation caused by the drought.
“Please, the beneficiaries should receive whatever is being provided to them, be it matangara or fish . . . as we are in an emergency [situation], and should try and adapt,” he noted.
Meatco delivered 330 boxes of corned beef to the main drought relief food warehouse at Opuwo on Wednesday, which was set to be delivered to other warehouses in the region for further distribution.
The Opuwo warehouse also received 279 boxes of tinned fish and 29 boxes of corned beef from the drought relief supplies, which were recently donated by the Russian Government as part of its drought food assistance to Namibia.
Namib Mills has additionally been contracted to deliver 60 000 x 12,5kg bags of maize meal to the Kunene Region every month throughout the drought.
The Disaster Risk Management Unit coordinator at the Kunene Regional Council, Lucas Tjoola, confirmed to Nampa on Monday that two truckloads of maize meal were delivered to the main warehouse in Opuwo by Namib Mills last week.
He added that the distribution of the food to the beneficiaries will commence as soon as the restocking of other warehouses has been completed. – Nampa
The region has been hit hard by drought for two consecutive years.
“Meatco will provide the drought relief programme with tinned meat products and cattle matangara (offals),” Hausiku stated.
The Deputy PM thus called on beneficiaries to appreciate what they will be provided with and not to be selective, adding that these products are not being offered to them ‘for pleasure’ but due to the emergency situation caused by the drought.
“Please, the beneficiaries should receive whatever is being provided to them, be it matangara or fish . . . as we are in an emergency [situation], and should try and adapt,” he noted.
Meatco delivered 330 boxes of corned beef to the main drought relief food warehouse at Opuwo on Wednesday, which was set to be delivered to other warehouses in the region for further distribution.
The Opuwo warehouse also received 279 boxes of tinned fish and 29 boxes of corned beef from the drought relief supplies, which were recently donated by the Russian Government as part of its drought food assistance to Namibia.
Namib Mills has additionally been contracted to deliver 60 000 x 12,5kg bags of maize meal to the Kunene Region every month throughout the drought.
The Disaster Risk Management Unit coordinator at the Kunene Regional Council, Lucas Tjoola, confirmed to Nampa on Monday that two truckloads of maize meal were delivered to the main warehouse in Opuwo by Namib Mills last week.
He added that the distribution of the food to the beneficiaries will commence as soon as the restocking of other warehouses has been completed. – Nampa
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