The Directorate of Education in the Kavango West Region commemorated International Education Day at the Christian Joseph Haihambo Combined School on Tuesday. The day, which is commemorated annually on 24 January, was observed under the theme ‘To invest in people, prioritise education.’ In a speech read on her behalf, Minister of Education, Arts and Culture,…
The Namibian Ports Authority (NamPort) has teamed up with several international ports in a bid to position itself to handle green hydrogen products destined for the European Union market. The five-year collaborations between NamPort and the Belgian Port of Antwerp-Bruges and the Netherlands Port of Rotterdam, signed in 2022 and 2021 respectively, are meant to…
A large number of parents flooded the two main high schools in Rehoboth on Tuesday in a bid to secure places for their children for the 2023 academic year. Speaking to Nampa on the same day, the principal of Rehoboth High School, Jackie Jackson #Khariseb said since the school featured in the top 10 of…
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…
Over 100 Grade 8 learners are currently on a waiting list to be placed in schools for the Hardap Region’s #Oan||ob circuit. There are 15 pre-primary learners and 30 Grade 1 learners on the waiting list for the same circuit. This was revealed in an interview with Nampa on Wednesday by George Dax, the Inspector…
Residents of Groot Aub and the Namibian Police Force (NamPol) have expressed concern at the rate at which crime is escalating at the settlement. They expressed their fears of crime during a visit by Nampa to the Windhoek Rural Constituency on Tuesday. “There is a lot of drug and alcohol abuse in Groot Aub. Our…
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 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…
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…
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…