Groot Aub, CoW collide over water crisis

Residents of Groot Aub are frustrated by the restrictive measures put up by the City of Windhoek (CoW) which do not permit them to drill boreholes. Speaking to Nampa on Tuesday, Windhoek Rural Constituency Councillor and Landless People’s Movement (LPM) member Petrus Adams said that CoW has set up restrictive measures that prohibit private residents…

No water crisis in the north so far

Although there has not been sufficient rain in the northern parts of the country, the water situation continues to be normal after the completion of the Omahenene-Olushandja water canal in December last year. The 150-kilometre canal supplies water from the Cunene River at the Calueque Dam in southern Angola to Olushandja dam and the Oshakati…

Mix community begs Govt to open school

Mix settlement community members are pleading with the government to open up a school that was built here in 2017, stressing their children are denied an education due to the lack of school facilities. The partially built school has a block of three classrooms, an office and toilet facilities. Speaking to Nampa on Tuesday, community…

Parents in tears after failed school search

Some parents in Windhoek were in tears on Wednesday as they left principal offices with news that schools are full to capacity and cannot accommodate new learners. Public schools officially commenced on Wednesday for the academic year 2023 and many parents were left stranded as they searched for placements especially in pre-primary, Grade 1 and…

Lack of school placement worries parents

Some parents in Swakopmund are concerned that their children might not get school placement. Johanna Haitula who has been looking for Grade 7 placement for her daughter said she was told to go back to the Teachers’ Resource Centre on 16 January, after she went there on Wednesday as instructed late last year. “She was…

‘MTC 4LIFE’ project receives over 8 000 applications

Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) has received over 8000 applications for its ‘MTC 4LIFE’ project from unemployed Namibian youth across the country. The N.dollars 2.6 million project, which began in October 2022, is a socioeconomic initiative aimed at reducing youth unemployment and empowering Namibians to work for themselves in the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector.…