Month: June 2023

There is a portion of Namibia’s population that is more financially and emotionally stressed than the rest and goes unnoticed by most.

Lawmakers are investigating how they can rescue ordinary consumers from high interest rates and exorbitant charges at commercial banks.

The significance of mental health is gaining recognition in Namibia. I was excited to hear that the Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr Kalumbi Shangula is prioritising mental health issues, and intends to pass a Mental Health Bill, which will be tabled before the end of the year.

Project Never Walk Alone continues to give hope to vulnerable children and keep them in schools.

Swapo Party Youth League’s newly appointed chairperson of leaders assigned to Oshikoto region, said he will prioritise youth access to business funding as a quest to fight unemployment.

The construction of a new Social Security Commission office at Otjiwarongo will not only serve the town’s inhabitants, but will also extend the commission’s services and overall footprint to other five towns within the Otjozondjupa region. 

Prosecutor general Martha Imalwa has called out a former judicial officer, who is accused of sexually violating two women he picked up in Windhoek, for delaying the case that has been on the court’s roll since 2015.

Kavango West governor Sirkka Ausiku reports that more services have become available there over the past 10 years, as more institutions opened offices there but multidimensional poverty still haunts the region

The Balyerwa conservancy, registered in 2006 and found in Zambezi region, has been making steady progress in empowering community members living in the areas of Mbambazi, Sauzuo, Nambali and Lyanshulu, which fall under the conservancy.