The Deputy Minister of Sport, Youth and National Service, Emma Kantema-Gaomas, on Wednesday officially launched the YouthConnekt Namibia initiative at Otjiwarongo in the Otjozondjupa Region. Kantema-Gaomas said YouthConnekt Namibia aims to involve Namibian youth in the YouthConnekt Africa Hub, where they will be expected to share ideas, submit business initiatives and acquire technical development skills.…
Paralympic Games medallist and T13 sprinter Johannes Nambala says he is happy to see the Namibia Paralympic Committee (NPC) recruiting young athletes for the national team. Nambala, who won silver medals in 200 and 400 metres (m) sprints at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, recently told Nampa some of the new recruits represented Namibia very…
Senior national football team coach Collin Benjamin has said inexperience and lack of match fitness played a role in the Young Warriors’ defeat to Angola on Wednesday. The Under-23 national team is currently in Luanda, Angola where they are competing for a spot in the U-23 Africa Cup of Nations that will be held in…
The Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) has resolved to terminate the contracts of all 1444 COVID -19 volunteers across the country, effective 31 October 2022. This was revealed in a letter seen by this agency, written by the ministry’s Executive Director, Ben Nangombe, dated 13 September 2022 and addressed to all national and…
President Hage Geingob said that 100 years of colonisation and the current classification of Namibia as an upper-middle-income class country does not reflect the reality on the ground when it comes to the income disparities between the wealthy whites and poor blacks. Speaking at the 77th United Nations General Assembly themed ‘Solutions through solidarity, sustainability…
Oshamukweni Combined School in the Ohangwena Region on Wednesday received two hostel blocks and an ablution facility valued at N.dollars 1.5 million from Kalahari Holdings. Kalahari Holdings’ Marketing Manager, Tulikki Nelulu, in a media statement issued on Wednesday said most learners are from nearby villages and travel between 15 to 20 kilometres to and from…
Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) member of parliament (MP), Elma Dienda, on Tuesday supported a motion tabled in the National Assembly to have all water debt owed by all local authorities in the country be written off by NamWater. The motion was tabled by Landless People’s Movement (LPM) MP Henny Seibeb in the National Assembly where…
Pupkewitz Motors, in partnership with Schoemans Office Systems, on Wednesday, donated 28 printers to schools in ten geographical regions across Namibia. At a donation event held in Oshakati in the Oshana Region, Anton Westraadt, Managing Director of the Pupkewitz Motor Division, stated that corporate Namibia and the private sector have a responsibility to actively participate…
The City of Windhoek has called on residents of the capital to leave their vehicles at home on Thursday and use alternative means to get to work in celebration of World Car Free Day. The CoW in a statement said the theme for the day is ‘Reducing our carbon footprint’ and the primary event will…
Minister of Works and Transport, John Mutorwa, has lashed out at TransNamib employees, saying there is a need for the parastatal to implement strategic policy collectively aimed at improving the country’s railway sector. Speaking at a workshop on the railway institutional set-review here on Wednesday, Mutorwa fumed that there are some employees abusing public properties,…