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Month: January 2015

Use SMEs for school feeding

The Teacher’s Union of Namibia (TUN) proposes that the Ministry of Education awards food tenders to constituency-based companies to promote local economic development and to allow the money to reach small scale businesses. The...

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Ministry warns against wrongdoings

Fishermen were reminded again this week to take out recreational fishing permits which they must present together with all relevant documents to fisheries inspectors on request. It is the responsibility of the anglers to ensure...

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From redundancy to edutainment

An unserviceable forklift that lay discarded in the scrapyard of Namdeb at Oranjemund is now part of the fun-learning playground at Oranjemund Pre-Primary School. After removing all mechanical parts, the forklift was treated to...

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The Fourth Estate

During the first week of December, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) hosted a selected group of children at the annual retreat to teach them the key role of freedom of expression in a democracy. “There is a growing...

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Offbeat 19 December 2014

Christmas is here again. I don’t know how Santa does it.  A whole year of supervising elves, tending to reindeer, and still he manages to smile and laugh. I imagine it is some kind of strong tranquilizer with something else...

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