Month: October 2018

WINDHOEK – Agra has introduced its Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID) to Namibia and the system can now be seen at the Windhoek Show.

Wryneck, also known as crooked/twisted neck refers to a muscular disorder in poultry manifested by a curved neck and limited head mobility. It is not an illness in itself but rather a symptom used to describe an abnormal head and neck position. It affects all poultry birds such as ducks, doves, chickens etc. and mostly occurs when birds are fed incorrect diets. 

WINDHOEK -Tough economic times have forced more than 600 communal and emerging farmers from the Ongombe Farmers Association to cancel the prestigious annual Okamatapati Show for the second consecutive year.

WINDHOEK - Hangala Foods, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hangala Group, managing Ombanje Farm situated between Otavi and Tsumeb has donated a Bonsmara bull to the government. 

WINDHOEK – The demand for the return of ancestral land is for real, says the United Democratic Front (UDF).

WINDHOEK –The prominent issue to be investigated and actions taken at the land conference are the reasons  and  challenges  as  to  why  the  Ministry  of  Land  Reform  waived  five million hectares of  land  offered  since 1992,  rather  than  abolishing  the principle of willing buyer, willing seller, says the Namibian Agricultural Union (NAU) president, Ryno van der Merwe.

WINDHOEK – The colonial wars that ensued following the arrival of German troops and eventually culminated in the infamous genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama people, between 1904 and 1908, dispossessed Namibians of their land, by force and without compensation, said President Hage Geingob when opening the Second National Land Conference in Windhoek yesterday. 

WINDHOEK - Air Namibia has confirmed that it has increased flight frequencies from five to six on the Windhoek- Gaborone- Durban route, effective  September 25, and to seven per week effective October 28.

WINDHOEK - Development Bank of Namibia (DBN) CEO Martin Inkumbi recently donated, on behalf of the Bank, N$150,000 for the construction of a dam for the Tegako 2020 Women in Business Co-operative. 

WINDHOEK - Kalla Toivo has been appointed as FNB’s National Sales Manager. Toivo joined FNB Namibia in 2008 as a seasonal worker at Exclusive Banking – responsible for filing.