Month: February 2020

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Youth urged to utilise DBN fund

ONGWEDIVA – Youth minister Erastus Uutoni has urged the young people to make use of the Development Bank of Namibia’s skills-based funding lending facility in order to create employment for themselves and others. The DBN lending facility assists young businesspeople with loans between N$50 000 and N$1 million.

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//Kharas urged to intensify war on cybercrime

KEETMANSHOOP – Deputy Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare Lucia Witbooi says decision makers should ensure there are opportunities in the curriculum of children to learn more about online safety through effective child protection strategies.

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Students beg to be sent home

BEIJING – Hordes of Namibian students studying in China feel they have been  abondoned by the government as they haplessly watch the evacuation of other international students from coronavirus-hit Wuhan. 

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Social grants spent on booze

It has emerged that some San people in the Aminuis constituency are misusing their children’s monthly social grants given by the government as safety nets in eradicating extreme poverty and reducing inequality.