Month: August 2018

WINDHOEK - The Minister of Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development, Tjekero Tweya, has dismissed perceptions by some critics that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), recently ratified by Namibia, will kill the already struggling infant industries in the country.

WINDHOEK – Namibia’s senior netball team, the Desert Jewels, will today take to the courts to confront East African nation Uganda for their opening match of the Africa Netball World Cup qualifiers, which officially kicked late yesterday.

ǀAEǁGAMS – Hoa !Hūbaisi ǂUrusib ǂNûiǂgās (WHO) ge ǀhûhâsigu khoena !khâikhom tsî ge mî hepatitis !nāsa khoena HIVs xoxoros hîa AIDSa ra !aromas xa ra tsâǀkhāsa. Hoa !Hūbaisi Hepatitis Tsēsa ǂâiǂâisens hîa kurikorobe 28 ǂKhoesaob dis air a tsēdīhes tawab gere gowaǀîsa mā soab aib ge Dr Petrus Mhatab WHOs dib age mî “nē !gomsib ge HIVs xa a kai ­îb ǂgui khoena ra tsâǀkhā amaga.”

WINDHOEK - Small scale producers must make use of the government’s support programmes to increase their cereal and horticulture production to ensure national and household food security, encourages Agriculture, Water and Forestry Deputy Minister, Anna Shiweda.

WINDHOEK - There must be a restitution of ancestral land rights for those Namibians who lost land because of colonial dispossession and genocide, states the Ovaherero Traditional Authority in its position paper on land prepared in anticipation of the Second National Land Conference scheduled for October 1-5.

WINDHOEK – A three percent increase in production and marketing of cattle was recorded from January to June this year, compared to the same period in 2017.

WINDHOEK – To boost local pig production, two South African experts, Duncan Stephenson and Lauren Trusler, will address members of the Pig Producers Association at their annual general meeting (AGM) tomorrow on basic bio-security and the value of a balanced ration.

WINDHOEK – The Namibian Agricultural Union (NAU) and the Livestock Producers Organisation (LPO) hastily organised talks with emerging and communal producers as well as government and financial institutions following rumours of border control on the export of weaners which has been under discussion since November 2017.

WINDHOEK - Members of the Namibia Agricultural Union (NAU) are affected parties in case of expropriation and thus NAU not only wants to be part of the solution but also over the years interacted closely with the Ministry of Land Reform besides also having been part of the 1991 first national land conference.