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Ministry won’t bail out Unam defaulters

The Ministry of Higher Education, Training and Innovation says it will not overrule the University of Namibia’s plan to bar students who owe money from writing exams.
Namibian Sun reported earlier this month that Unam had vowed not to allow students who are in debt to write examinations in October.
Registered students who owe tuition fees are not the only ones Unam is gunning for. The university is also reporting those who dropped out to debt collectors.
Earlier this year, Unam lowered the fees payable at registration from N$3 500 to N$1 500. This, coupled with confusing statements from the Ministry of Higher Education, led to many believing that some of the fees had been scrapped.
Unam spokesperson John Haufiku told Namibian Sun at the time that the notice put up by the university regarding outstanding fees was not a scare tactic.


He said the university would not allow any student to sit for examinations while owing the institution money.
Haufiku said students were asked to settle what they owed for the first semester by May. They are now required to settle all debt before the year-end examinations.
Asked for comment, the ministry’s permanent secretary, Alfred van Kent, said the ministry cannot decide what universities should do with students who have not paid their debts.
“The ministry of Higher Education, Training and Innovation is not micro-managing higher education institutions. These institutions are run by competent councils and the ministry cannot decide what they should do with students who have not paid their debts,” Van Kent said.
The ministry said the agreement reached with Unam and the Namibia University of Science and Technology earlier this year was that students who were unable to pay their tuition fees at registration would be allowed to register while the outstanding amount would be charged to their accounts.
The ministry requested the Namibian Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) to cover the debts of Namibian undergraduate students who passed all their courses in 2015 and met the criteria of academic performance and financial needs as specified by NSFAF.
Some students complained that for some courses NSFAF loans did not cover all their debt.
Earlier this month, some students laughed off Unam’s threat to bar them from exams, saying the university always issued the warning but ended up letting everyone write.
According to Haufiku, Unam is serious this time around.
“We’ve made it clear that this year, it’s different. We explained that because of events of this year, the student intake this year is much higher than before. This year, debt stands at N$255 million for registered students, and doesn’t include those who dropped out,” Haufiku said.
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Hope for rain on the horizon

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Hope for rain on the horizon Experts warn that although there is an improved outlook for rainfall this season, domestic water supply will remain critical unless the dams receive sufficient inflow.
Inflow into dams takes place only when the rivers are in flood. That means that heavy showers are needed to ensure that water flows into the dams instead of sinking into the ground.
“We must remember the dams are almost empty. So we need significant inflows into our dams to fill them up. Good rains might break the drought and will be good for agriculture, but in terms of domestic water supply, challenges remain,” a local expert said.
He said the type of rainfall plays a critical role.
“The spread and intensity of the rainfall determines if rivers will flow.
“There is a big difference between 10mm each day or one big 100mm storm. The 10mm wets the grass but the rivers don’t flow.”
He said the country’s best hope is for regular thunderstorms and floods, which will fill up the storage dams.
Last week, following the 20th annual Southern Africa regional climate outlook forum (Sarcof-20), weather experts released a statement saying that most parts of the region can expect normal to above-normal rainfall between October and March 2017.
According to meteorologist Simon Dirkse, Namibian weather experts are convening next week to compile a national outlook for Namibia in particular.
Dirkse said current weather models indicate it is likely that most of Namibia will experience a better rainy season this year than in the last two years.
He said rainfall should normalise this year, but taking into account normal weather variability, some areas might receive above-average rainfall and others less than average rainfall.
He said the public can expect a statement following next week’s national weather forum.
At Sarcof-20, the climate scientists took into account oceanic and atmospheric factors that influence the weather in the SADC region. In particular, the El Niño Southern Oscillation is foreseen to be shifting from warm, through neutral to a cold phase, also referred to as La Niña, during the coming rainy season.
The long-term prediction for December, January and February is that more than 600mm of rain will fall over much of Malawi, Zambia, Angola, the southern half of the Democratic Republic of Congo, central and northern Mozambique, as well as Mauritius, Madagascar and Seychelles.
“The remainder of the region will receive rainfall of less than 400mm, gradually decreasing south-westwards to southwest South Africa and Namibia, where the mean rainfall is below 100mm,” it added.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs predicted in July 2016 that there is a 55 to 60% chance of La Niña occurring toward the end of the year, compounding the impact of El Niño.
In the southern African region, La Niña brings wetter than normal conditions, and often leads to extensive floods.
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'Shady' deal to improve pass rate

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'Shady' deal to improve pass rateThe education ministry is unimpressed with the Rehoboth High School’s plan to stretch grade 10 over two years for pupils who performed poorly in grade 9. Rehoboth grade 10s in examination storm The education ministry is unimpressed with the Rehoboth High School’s plan to stretch grade 10 over two years for pupils who performed poorly in grade 9. A decision by the Rehoboth High School (RHS) management to make 29 grade 10 learners complete the grade over two years has been condemned by the education ministry.
The permanent secretary of the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, Sanet Steenkamp, said this is unacceptable and an “unscrupulous” deal.
Although she was not aware of the agreement, Steenkamp emphasised that no school management has the right to prolong a learner’s school career unless the learner is harmful to himself or others.
According to the school’s life science teacher, Martina Jarman, the decision was made during a meeting attended by the school management and the regional education director, Mzingisi Gqwede, in January this year.
The motivation behind the decision, she said, was to give the learners that were promoted to grade 10 without merit a better chance at passing that grade.
“The decision was made because we have so many learners that fail at the end of the year. In reality they are still supposed to be in grade 9, because they did not pass it. Even during the first semester of this year, the learners’ results were very poor, so even if they write now they may not pass,” Jarman explained.
According to her the learners’ parents signed an agreement in January that allows the school to only register the children for the grade 10 exam next year.
However, some of the parents changed their minds after it was discovered that one of the 29 learners, whose mother serves on the school board, was registered for exams this year while the remainder were not registered.
Jarman confirmed this but denied that it was because the child’s mother serves on the school board. She said three other learners whose parents do not serve on the board were also “mistakenly” registered.
According to her it was a “technical error” and these learners cannot be deregistered.
“The learner whose mother serves on the board is one of the parents who strongly felt their children are not ready and should only write the exams next year. What will happen now is that these four learners will simply not write this year,” she said.
One of the disgruntled parents, Sara Diergaardt, said they were coerced into signing the agreement.
Diergaardt is worried that prolonging grade 10 will jeopardise the future of the learners, who are already aged between 18 and 20.
“They told us that if we do not sign the form our children would be chased from the school. This thing now means the children must just go to the street or go and work in people’s kitchens,” said Diergaardt.
Gqwede said he was not aware of the decision, but after making enquiries he said the matter was under investigation.
“From what can gather telephonically is that there was a parent and school board meeting earlier this year to discuss the poor grade 10 results at RHS. They decided to hold back those learners who did not pass grade 9 but were transferred to grade 10 as per the ministerial policy,” said Gqwede.
He told Namibian Sun that he had called a meeting for today where the issue would be resolved.
Diergaardt, however, said parents were never part of the meeting where the decision was made and were only called in to the school to sign the agreement.


Unlawful


Steenkamp said if every teacher made sure that the children had the basic competencies required, there would have been no need for such an arrangement.
“There is no rule that a school can do this. We will have to contact the director. The school will have to clearly explain why they made this decision,” she emphasised.
“It is clear that the management of the school did not oversee the operations of the school. If the teachers already knew by then that the learners were struggling they should have put in effort to see to it that the children must be assisted during extra lessons or tutoring,” said Steenkamp.
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Namibian football in freefall

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Namibian football in freefallLong regarded as the most popular sport in the country, football is facing testing times for administrators and fans alike. Spectacular demise of ‘most popular code’ Namibian football has come to a crossroads, with the game facing an uncertain future on various levels.
It is now well documented that the Namibian Football Association’s (NFA) coffers are running on empty, partly because the government has yet to make its annual contribution.
It is also common knowledge that the Namibia Premier League (NPL), which is the country’s topflight division, might not kick off after its previous sponsor, MTC, opted not to renew an agreement to fund the competition.
The telecommunications company had made a provisional commitment to fund the NPL to the tune of N$45 million over three years (N$15 million per year), provided that the league managed to get an additional sponsor to cover the NPL’s budget of N$24 million per season.
That meant the NPL had to recruit a sponsor willing to fund the extra N$9 million per season and N$27 million over three years.
The NPL was unable to get the additional funding, resulting in MTC withdrawing their commitment.

All fronts

Commentators, administrators and fans are in agreement that a lack of activity in the NPL will be disastrous for the local game.
But an even bigger disaster took shape yesterday after news broke that some of Namibia’s senior football team players were on strike, demanding outstanding appearance fees and bonuses.
The players yesterday met with the NFA leaders and the Namibian Sports Commission (NSC) and an agreement was reached, which meant that Namibia will still play Senegal in a 2017 African Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifier match in Dakar this Saturday.
Although the match will not have any impact on whether or not the Brave Warriors qualify for the 2017 event (Namibia is already out of the running for a spot), failure to honour the fixture would have resulted in sanctions from the Confederation of African Football (CAF). This might have included suspension from competing in future Afcon qualifiers, or a hefty fine.

Changes

Namibia’s current woes have come as a surprise to many, as less than two years ago football appeared to be in good standing.
In 2014, the country had just seen the conclusion of an exciting Bidvest Namibia Cup while the NPL finished the second year of its MTC sponsorship.
Add to that the hosting of the first edition of the Standard Bank Super Cup and the Hage Geingob Cup, and it appeared that football had a glorious future ahead.
The fact that Bidvest did not renew its contract to sponsor Namibia’s national football competition largely went unnoticed as the other competitions went full steam ahead.
On the national front, the Brave Warriors won the 2015 Cosafa Cup; again making it seem as if the game was about to enter a successful period.

Downhill

This view was cemented by Namibia’s hosting of the 2016 Cosafa Cup, which administrators said was successful.
But everything seems to have unravelled within the space of a few months and the game now appears to be in tatters on the local front.
It also appears as though the recent moderate successes were only plasters hiding deeper problems - the most obvious of which is the inability to find sustainable sources of funding.
This conundrum has also raised questions about the management of the few sponsors still willing to partner football.
Over the last few years, Skorpion Zinc, which sponsored a national Under-17 competition, Bidvest Namibia and now MTC have all opted to not continue their involvement in the local game.

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Golf women make impression in Botswana

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Golf women make impression in Botswana Golfers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Zambia and Nigeria travelled great distances to take part in the Botswana Women’s Open last weekend.
According to reports, Botswana pulled out all the stops to host an extremely well-organised and enjoyable event.
The Namibian team consisted of eleven players across all divisions and they performed well considering the course was an unknown for most of the players.
The cold, windy conditions in the morning and warm, windy conditions in the afternoon also made it difficult.
The players prevailed and took home 13 prizes, with Caro Els playing brilliantly to take home the Overall Gross Prize.
A statement issued by Namibian Ladies’ Golf yesterday thanked their Botswana counterparts, Minkie Molatimegi and her team, for the hospitality extended to all the visiting countries.
“We are hopeful that the success of the Botswana Open will spill over to neighbouring countries so that we can work towards developing the sport for women not only in Namibia but across the continent,” said Adri Pienaar Namibian Ladies Golf Union (NALGU) president.

Namibian results:
Caro Els: First Overall Gross
Lydia Lumley: Third Overall Net
Brenda Lens: Third Gross B Division
Mary-Ann Boltmann: Third Stableford Division and Closest to the Pin
Anecia Le Grange: Longest Drive
Wilna Bredenhann: Second in A Division Gross
Hileni Sheenuka: Second C Division Stableford
Dolores Wolfaardt: Third C Division Stableford

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NAFPU’s second ordinary congress on Saturday

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NAFPU’s second ordinary congress on Saturday

The Namibia Football Players’ Union (NAFPU) will hold its second ordinary congress in Windhoek on Saturday, with the theme ‘Prosperity for Players’.
The congress was initially scheduled for 27 August, but was postponed to 3 September due to unforeseen circumstances.
NAFPU secretary-general Olsen Kahiriri says more than 35 players have so far confirmed their participation.
“We have invited the players, football stakeholders and media. The media and stakeholders will be allowed in the congress up to a certain time,” he told Nampa on Tuesday.
Kahiriri said it is going to be an elective congress, but the positions that will be contested are yet to be decided.
“We will reveal these positions on Saturday following consultations with our legal advisers. The constitution will also be amended and we will discuss a number of policy amendments.”
Kahiriri further announced that they will launch the ‘Z-CARD’, an educational, personalised leaflet produced by the International Federation of Professional Footballers (FIFPro) Division Africa.
FIFPro is the worldwide representative organisation for 65 000 professional football players.
The Z-CARD focuses on football as a professional occupation and serves as reminder to African players of their rights and duties.
FIFPro is made up of 58 national players’ associations, with NAFPU being one of them.
NAFPU is currently led by former Brave Warriors midfielders Sylvester ‘Lolo’ Goraseb and Johannes ‘Congo’ Hindjou.
It remains unclear whether both will stand for their respective positions unchallenged.
Donnelly Nell is currently listed as the body’s treasurer. -Additional reporting by own reporter.

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Testing times for national cricket team

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Testing times for national cricket team In preparation of their crucial away games against Papua New Guinea in October, the Namibian senior national cricket side will take part in the African T20 cup this weekend.
They will also face Saudi Arabia in Windhoek in two weeks’ time.
The Namibians will face PNG in the Intercontinental Cup from 16 to 19 October while also fighting for World Cricket League points against the islanders at the same venue two days later.
“We are currently in a bad position in the Intercontinental Cup and World Cricket League,” said Namibia’s cricket coach, Dayanand Thakur.
“We must win both games or risk being relegated to a lower division in the future.
“PNG is a quality side but we beat them convincingly last year and we are confident that we can get a good result there,” he vowed.
The ICC Intercontinental Cup is an international first-class cricket tournament between leading associate members.
The winner will play four five-day matches against the bottom-ranked Test nation, an event known as the 2018 ICC Test Challenge.
Should the winner of the Intercontinental Cup go on to win the ICC Test Challenge they will become the 11th Test nation.
Namibia won against Hong Kong in the first match. But they fell short to Hong Kong and Afghanistan in the following encounters.
Thakur and his men will get their first chance to showcase their skills when they take on the South African provisional sides KwaZulu-Natal Inland, North West and Western Province in the group phase of the African T20 Cup beginning on Friday morning in Pietermaritzburg.
“No associate country has ever won a group stage at this event, but that is what we are striving for. We cannot go there to only compete,” Thakur said.

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Archers send records tumbling

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Archers send records tumbling Thirteen national records were shattered this past weekend when Sparta Archery Club hosted the ninth annual Namibian National Archery Championship in Walvis Bay.
Perfect weather conditions prevailed on Saturday and Sunday, with just a slight breeze cooling the archers off.
Those who expected cold, misty conditions were in for a surprise when the weather turned sunny on Saturday morning.
Thirty-five of Namibia’s top archers battled it out to be crowned national champion in their respective divisions.
On Saturday they shot a complete 1440 round and on Sunday they competed in the 720 round with eliminations.
The following archers set 13 new AAN national records:
Henk van den Berg set four new records in the Compound Master Men division at 30, 50, and 70 metres.
Anton Zietsman set two new records in the Compound Master Men division at 70 metres.
Francois Marais set two new records in the Compound Men division at 50 metres.
Mathys du Preez set two new records in the Compound Under-13 Boys division at 30 metres.
Xander Reddig set two new records in the Recurve Junior Men division at 70 metres.
Quinn Reddig set a new record in the Recurve Cub Girls division at 30 metres.
A statement issued by the Archery Association of Namibia (AAN) yesterday thanked the organisers, Iroleen and Leslie Page, and the judges, Rita Schenk, Christo Brand and Karola Woortman, for their hard work.
For complete results and records, fans can visit AAN’s Facebook page, Archery in Namibia, or their website: www.archerynamibia.org.
The next target archery ranking shoot will be the Teuguni Shoot on 24 September at SKW Club in Windhoek.

Namibian Champions:
Compound Boys Under-13: Casper Jacobus Oosthuizen
Compound Girls Under-15: Lindie Schoeman
Compound Boys Under-15: Duan Engelbrecht
Recurve Cub Girls Under-15: Quinn Reddig
Recurve cub Boys Under-15: Morne Meyer
Compound Cadet Men: A.J. Groenewald
Recurve Cadet Men: Adriaan Grobler
Compound Junior Men: Waldo Van Wyk
Recurve Junior Men: Xander Reddig
Compound Master Men: Henk Van Den Berg
Compound Women: Ilana Malan
Recurve Men: Frank Reddig
Compound Men: Louan Groenewald
Highest Score for 1440&720 round: Francois Marais
Most Improved Score in 1440 Round: Quinn Reddig

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Murray, Serena ride strong serves ?Wimbledon champions Andy Murray and Serena Williams powered into the second round of the US Open as the stars came out on Arthur Ashe Stadium court on Tuesday night.
Williams, launching her latest bid to rewrite the record books, started strong and didn’t let up in 6-3, 6-3 victory over 29th-ranked Ekaterina Makarova.
The US world number one appeared untroubled by the balky right shoulder that has hindered her in recent weeks, delivering a dozen aces and 27 winners overall in the 63-minute contest.
“I knew today I needed to be focused because I’ve played her. She’s gotten to the semi-finals. She goes deep in majors,” Williams said of the Russian left-hander who beat her in the fourth round of the 2012 Australian Open.
“She knows how to play big matches on big courts. She’s not intimidated. I knew I had to really come out today. It was my only option really.”
While Williams has struggled since Wimbledon, Murray went from claiming a second title at the All England club to a successful defence of his Olympic gold in Rio.
Vying to become the fourth man in the Open Era to reach all four major finals in a calendar year, Murray, too, produced a dominant service performance in a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Czech Lukas Rosol.
“I don’t think I had any break points against me, which is very good,” the Scot said.
Before the floodlights came up, Serena’s elder sister Venus claimed a Grand Slam record of her own as her 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 victory over Ukraine’s Kateryna Kozlova marked her 72nd appearance in the main draw of a major.
The 36-year-old Venus, enjoying resurgence in a 2016 season that includes a WTA title in Taiwan, survived 63 unforced errors against the rising 22-year-old, although she was pleased that her aggressive approach also yielded 46 winners.
“The good part is I’m playing the game I want to play, I’m playing aggressively and moving forward,” Venus said.
Fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland, trying to make it to the quarter-finals in New York for the first time, breezed past US qualifier Jessica Pegula 6-1, 6-1 and fifth-seeded Romanian Simona Halep also eased through with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Belgian Kirsten Flipkens. Men’s third seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland, a two-time semi-finalist, reached the second round with a 7-6 (7/4), 6-4, 6-4 win over Spain’s Fernando Verdasco.
Kei Nishikori, who became Asia’s first men’s Grand Slam finalist in New York in 2014, when he fell to Marin Cilic in the final, also advanced, downing German Benjamin Becker 6-1, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.

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Thompson headlines stellar 200m in Zurich

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Rarely can a women’s 200m race headlined by recently crowned double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson be seen to boast such a stellar field as the one gathered for today’s Zurich Diamond League meet.
Lining up alongside Thompson are world champion and Olympic silver medallist Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands, American Allyson Felix, who won 200m gold at the 2012 London Games and is also a three-time world champion in the distance, and Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown, Olympic champion in 2004 and 2008.
Between them, the quartet have dominated the women’s 200m since 2004, reaping seven of the 12 available medals in the last four Olympics and 10 of the 18 in six world championships over the same period, including nine individual 200m gold medals.
They will be joined in the Weltklasse field by European champion and Olympic bronze medallist Dina Asher-Smith of Britain and three-time Olympic finalist Michelle-Lee Ahye of Trinidad and Tobago.
Aside from Thompson, there will be 14 other Olympic champions on show in Zurich, which is the first leg of the two-event final of the Diamond League, the second leg coming next week in Brussels.
Schippers is the runaway leader for the Diamond Race in the 200m, guaranteed to leave Switzerland US$40 000 (N$578 000) better off as one of the 16 discipline winners on the night.
In what is guaranteed to be a high-quality meet, Renaud Lavillenie goes head-to-head with Brazilian Thiago Braz da Silva, in the pole vault.
The Brazilian had beaten Lavillenie to gold in Rio amid widely-condemned jeering of the Frenchman.
No matter the result today, Lavillenie will leave with a cheque as he, like Schippers, is guaranteed victory in the Diamond Race and will become the first athlete to win the trophy for the seventh consecutive time.

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Discipline and a foul mouth Born to a wealthy family in Vienna, Niki Lauda did not use the conventional methods of a man his means to become a world champion race driver. Far from it, his family disapproved and refused to finance his career, but Lauda plodded on, racing in the lesser ranks before getting his first break in Formula 1 with March. After a couple of fruitless seasons in F1, he caught the attention of legendary car builder Enzo Ferrari, and was soon driving for the famed " Prancing Horse." Lauda came close to winning the World Championship in 1974, but secured the coveted title the next year with a stellar season. Lauda was well on his way to winning again in 1976, but was nearly killed in a fiery crash at Nurburgring, Germany. In nothing short of a miracle, Lauda was back racing in six weeks despite being scarred in the face from his burns, yet nearly won the title, losing by only a single point to James Hunt. Lauda recaptured the F1 world title in 1977, raced one more year before announcing his retirement in 1978, to devote more time to his fledgling Lauda Air. His retirement was short-lived as he came back to race, this time for McLaren, in 1982. With McLaren, Lauda won his third and final championship in 1984, and retired for good in 1985 with 25 career wins and the admiration of the racing world. He is the founder, CEO and occasional pilot at Lauda Air, which is the second largest commercial airlines in Austria, and is a consultant for Ferrari.
A legend in Formula 1 and currently the team manager for Mercedes, Lauda always wears a baseball cap to cover his burn scars from his auto accident in 1976.
In his career he won 25 races in the Formula 1 World Championships; he won 24 pole positions in Formula 1 World Championships and founded Lauda Air in 1978. Lauda Air is Austria's second largest commercial airline.
Today he is team manager at Mercedes.
He is the only driver to win a race in an F1 car fitted with a fan to generate down force.
Notable quotes:
*At the time I was upset by how people reacted. They wouldn't look me in the eye, which I thought was rude. But I have to say I was startled by the movie and I understand now. [Rival racer James] Hunt used to say to me: 'Niki, you're lucky. Some people are just born ugly, but you have the excuse of an accident.'
*I always go extreme ways.
*There are more important things in life than the world championship, like staying alive.
*A lot of people criticize Formula 1 as an unnecessary risk. But what would life be like if we only did what is necessary?
*Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.


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Okupandula Amupanda kweetele Imms NashingeSPYL otayi ka katukila oonkatu yimwe yomiilyo yawo omolwa omapopyo ngoka ya ningi kepandja lyoFacebook, ngoka taga yelekwa nombapila ngaashi ndjoka ya shangelwe kuNyamu. Omutumba gweutho okwa lopotwa tagu kalako momasiku 19 omwedhi nguka SPYL otayi ka katukila oonkatu yimwe yomiilyo yawo omolwa omapopyo ngoka ya ningi kepandja lyoFacebook, ngoka taga yelekwa nombapila ngaashi ndjoka ya shangelwe kuNyamu. Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) ota ningile omutumba gweutho oshilyo she, Immanuel Nashinge, sho aniwa a halele omayambeko amushanga nale gwomauyelele moSPYL, Job Amupanda omolwa iilonga ye iipe.
Mboka taya ka pangulwa natango kEwawa ndyoka lyAanyasha mOngundu tayi pangele, ongaashi Paulus Mbangu naReinhold Shipwiikineni.
Mombaapila yomasiku 12 gaAguste nuumvo, ndjoka ya shangwa kuamushanga gwIilonga nUuyuki mEwawa ndyoka, Sidney Ganeb, Nashinge okwa pewa elombwelo kombinga yoshipotha shoka.
Ganeb okwa popi kutya omutumba gweutho otagu ningwa momasiku 19 gaSeptemba.
Kombaapila hoka okwa tulwa ombaapila ndjoka tayi ulike kutya Nashinge okwa topola oshinyolwa shoshifo shika, shoka shi na onkundana yiilonga iipe yaAmupanda, sho uulikwa onga deputy dean gwaUnam kOshikondo shoEconomic and anagement Science.
Omupopiliko gwoSPYL, Neville Andre Itope okwa popi kutya iipotha shaNashinge, Mbangi naShipwiikineni oya ukithwa kokomitiye yomautho okuza kelelo lyopombanda lyoSPYL.
Omutumba ngoka otashi vulika gu ka ete etopoko mEwawa ndyoka lya topoka nale konima shoAmupanda naElijah Ngurare ya li ya tidhwa mOngundu yoSwapo. MuFebruali, ngoka ta longo onga amushanga gwoSPYL, Veikko Nekundi okwa popi kutya oohapu dhaNashinge otadhi yelekwa noombapila dhoka dha li dha shangwa komuleli nale gwoSwapo,
Jesaya Nyamu ngoka a li a tidhwa moSwapo konima sho kwa monika oombapila dhoka a shanga. Nyamu okwa li a pula iilyo yoSwapo unene aayambidhidhi yaHidipo Hamutenya, ya ninge omapiyagano mongundu nokutotapo ongundu yawo.

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Omagumbo 284 ga gandjwa mEenhana

Ehangano lyoNational Housing Enterprise (NHE) olya gandja koshigwana omagumbo ga thika po-284 mondoolopa yEenhana.
Omagumbo ngoka oga tungwa muule woomvula mbali kongushu yoshimaliwa shoomiliyona 112, mwakwatelwa oomiliyona 24 dhokuwapaleka evi.
Omunashipundi gwoNHE, Sam Shivute okwa popi kutya ngele oya kala nokutsikila okumona eyambidhidho okuza kepangelo nena otaya kala nokugwanitha po iilonga yawo.
“Namibia onkene e na ompumbwe yomagumbo gombiliha ihe uuna epangelo tali tsikile nokutuyambidhidha nena otwa pyakudhukwa okulonga iilonga yetu, nokugwanitha po iinakugwanithwa mbyoka twiinekelelwa.”
Shivute okwa pula aantu yopaumwene ya hulithe po omukalo gwokutunga omagumbo nokuga landitha po kondilo. Okwa popi kutya oondando dhomagumbo gawo nadhi kale tadhi vulu okwiidhidhimikilwa opo aaantu ayehe ya vule okulikola omagumbo.
Minista Sophia Shaningwa, okwa popi kutya epangelo onkene lyiitula mo nokukandula po ompumbwe yomagumbo mokati koshigwana.
Minista Shaningwa okwa tsu omuthindo opo aatungi ya tunge omagumbo gongushu, na okwa gwedha po kutya epangelo itali kiidhidhimikila aatungi mboka taya tungu omagumbo gomuthika gwopevi noka ge na ongushu.
Shaningwa okwa pula woo ooyene yomagumbo ngoka, ye ga kwate nawa nokufuta pathimbo iifuta yawo.


KENYA KAMBOWE

Uuministeli ita wu kapopila aanangunga moUnam

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Uuministeli ita wu kapopila aanangunga moUnam

Uuministeli wElongo lyoPobamnda owa popi kutya itawu ka ya moshipala oshiputudhilo shopombanda shoUniversiti yaNamibia opo kashi indike mboka ye na oongunga ya ngashe omakonaakono gawo.
Namibian Sun oya lopota petameko lyomwedhi gwa piti kutya Unam okwa tokola kutya itaka pitika mboka ye na oongunga dhe ya shange omakonaakono muKotomba.
Kuyele nuumvo Unama okwa l ia shunitha pevi iifuta ye yomaishangitho okuza poo -N$3 500 okuya po N$1 500. Shoka osha etitha engwangwano omolwa omapopyo ga ningwa kUuministeli wElongo lyopombanda noyendji oya itaala kutya iifuta yilwe otayi dhimwa po.
Omupopiliko gwoshiputudhilo shoka, John Haufiku okwa popi kutya mboka ye na oongunga dhoshiputudhilo itaya ka pitikwa okushanga omakonaakono. Haufiku okwa popi kutya aailongi oya li ya pewa ompito opo ya kala ya manitha oongunga dhawo dhoka ye na okuya muMei gwonuumvo.
Ngashiingeyi okwa tegelelwa ya kale ya manitha okufuta oongunga dhoka omanga ekonaakono lya hugunina lyokomumvo inali thika. Sho a ningilwa omapulaapulo, amushanga gwUuministeli wElongo lyoPombanda okwa popi kutya yo itaya vulu okutokola kutya Unam na ninge ngiini naamboka ye na oongunga dhe. Uuministeli owa popi kutya wo owali owala waadha etsokumwe naUnam opo a pitike aailongi mboka ye na omikuli ya vule okwiishangitha petameko lyomvula.
Uuministeli owa pula oshiketha shoNamibian Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) opo futile aailongi ayehe mboka ya piti nawa iilongwa yawo mo-2015 na otaya pumbwa omayambidhidho gopaiyemo.
Aailongi yamwe oya nyenyeta kutya ope na ookoosa dhimwe dhoka ihadhi futilwa koNSFAF.
Aailongi yamwe oya popi kutya aluhe Unam oha ningi omatilitho ihe ohaka etha aailongi ya shange omakonaakono gawo ihe Haufiku okwa popi kutya ngashiingeyi Unam okwiitulamo moshili omolwa oongunga dhoka dhi ninwe kaailongi dha londa pombanda noonkondo sigo opoomiliyona 255 inamu kwatelwa dhaamboka ya thiga po oshiputudhilo.

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Aakwashigwana otaya holeke aakongo yaali paveta

Ominista yOmidhingoloko nOmatalelepo, Pohamba Shifeta okwa ningi omutumba gwomauyelele noshigwana kombinga yuukongo woondjamba noompanda. Omutumba ngoka ogwa ningilwa mOngwediva.
Okwa popi kutya aakongo mboka oyeli oshitopolwa shaakwashigwana yaNamibia mboka woo haya holekwa ethimbo limwe kaakwashigwana.
Oonkundathana dhoka odhili oshitopolwa shegandjo lyomauyelele okuza kuuministeli dhoka dha ningilwa mIipindi yaNgwediva mOshitopolwa shaShana. Oonkundathana dhoka odha wayiminwa kOmupanguli-ndjai Martha Imalwa, Omupevi Omukonaakoni gwIilonga mOpolisi yaNamibia, James Tjivikua, Omukomeho gwoIntegrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation, John Kasaona, oshowo omunashipundi gwoSheeya Shuushona Conservancy, Hilda Haipinge.
Pahapu dhaShifeta, oonkundathana dhoka odha totha mo iinima ya simana mboka tayi kwatakanithwa niimbuluma tayi ningilwa iiyamakuti oshowo iinamwenyo ya gamenwa.
Oshigwana osha kumikwa opo shi kale aluhe sha pyakudhukwa okugandja omauyelele molwaashoka oombangi miipotha mboka otadhi kala dha gamenwa.
Omiyalu dha gandja kuuministeli otashi ulike kutya oompanda 125 noondjamba 49 odha dhipagwa omvula ya piti, omanga nuumvo okwa dhipagwa oompanda 37 noondjamba 31.

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Shell disposes of Gulf of Mexico oil assets

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Shell disposes of Gulf of Mexico oil assets

Royal Dutch Shell agreed to sell its Brutus-Glider operation in the Gulf of Mexico for US$425 million (N$6.1 billion) as chief executive officer Ben Van Beurden seeks to resuscitate an explorer dinged by the lowest profits in more than a decade.
The buyer, EnVen Energy, will gain control of four blocks in the US part of the Gulf, as well as the platform and subsea pipeline network that funnel crude from the fields to shore, The Hague-based Shell said in a statement on Monday. The field pumps the equivalent of 25 000 barrels of oil a day, or 5.8% of Shell’s output in the Gulf of Mexico.
Shell, the biggest oil producer in the US Gulf, has been cancelling projects and reducing cash outlays to cope with the plunge in oil markets and the burden of the company’s US$54 billion (N$777.6 billion) purchase of BG Group in February.
Quarterly profit fell to an 11-year low in the three-month period that ended June 30 as poor refining results combined with production disruptions at oilfields from Africa to western Canada.

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Oakbay shares sink

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Oakbay shares sinkOakbay Resources and Energy took a knock on the announcement of plans by the Gupta family to sell their shares in assets ranging from media to coal by the end of the year. Oakbay Resources and Energy took a knock with the announcement of plans by the Gupta family to sell their shares in assets ranging from media to coal by the end of the year. Oakbay Resources and Energy took a knock on the announcement of plans by the Gupta family to sell their shares in assets ranging from media to coal by the end of the year. Oakbay Resources and Energy plummeted on the JSE Tuesday, falling by as much as 28.4% to R15 a share following news that the owners of the company, the Gupta family, are planning to sell their shares in the South African operations.
Michael Treherne, a portfolio manager at Vestact, said yesterday that it would be difficult to find buyers for the Gupta assets.
“Who is going to buy the assets? The assets may be viewed as being tainted, meaning that people will be sceptical about the future of the assets, and may ask if government contracts will dry up if the Guptas go,” Treherne said.
Treherne explained that Oakbay had no liquidity as 90% of the stock was held by only three shareholders.
“The weaker share price is not a reflection of the company’s worth. The market cap is irrelevant if there are no buyers or sellers of the stock,” Treherne said.
The Gupta family is closely linked to President Jacob Zuma and has been blamed for wielding political influence over the government.
Atul Gupta, the former non-executive chairman of Oakbay, Varun Gupta, the former chief executive, and Duduzane Zuma, the president’s son, in April resigned as non-executive directors of Shiva Uranium, a unit of Oakbay, at the height of the accusations that the family was at the centre of the so-called state capture and as South Africa’s top banks said they would close Oakbay-related accounts.
The company has since hired Jacques le Roux as the chief executive, with Terry Rensen as acting chairman.
The Guptas have also been blamed for the hounding of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to weaken the Treasury’s fight against corruption.
Oakbay’s market capitalisation was R12 billion on Tuesday. Its shares have fallen 30% in a year.
According to Oakbay, its priority focus is on uranium, with the main asset - Shiva Uranium - intended to be the first dedicated uranium mine in Africa. It has said it will require at least R800 million for optimum uranium production in the North West.
Oakbay mines gold deposits as a by-product and also offers outsourced contracting to the mining industry. These initiatives diversify revenue streams and are intended as a source of funding for current uranium resource development and as a cost underpin for future uranium production.

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Egypt minister quits amid wheat scandal

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Egypt minister quits amid wheat scandal Egypt's minister of supplies, Khaled Hanafy, announced his resignation on Thursday after reportedly being found politically responsible for wheat deals that cost the country tens of millions of dollars.
In a televised announcement, Hanafy said much of the criticism against him was personal, in reference to reports he had been living in a posh Cairo hotel since his appointment in 2014.
" I announce, with all integrity and contentedness, that I am leaving my post," he said.
" Experience shows that being a minister is no easy task but a burden... and much of what has been said is of a personal nature."
Egyptian media reported that a committee investigating the wheat deal allegations found that Hanafy bore political responsibility.
Suppliers were found to have sold cheaper imported wheat as locally produced in order to obtain state subsidies and inflate the annual harvest, costing the government about US$55 million (N$792 million).
The probe comes as the government seeks to cut public spending in Egypt, the world's largest importer of wheat.
Hanafy has also been accused of spending public funds on his hotel accommodation, with one member of parliament estimating the cost at US$800 000 (N$11.5 million).
Hanafy had denied the state covered his expenses, telling a newspaper he had paid for the hotel from his own pocket.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who pledged tough economic reforms to cut public spending, has also vowed to crack down on corruption.


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Mozambique to export newfound diamond wealth

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Mozambique to export newfound diamond wealth The Mozambican government is seeking clearance to export its newfound diamonds from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) amid reports that up to 34 international mining companies have joined the country’s diamond exploration rush.
Top Mozambican mines ministry official Ordelio De Sousa told diamond news portal ‘Rough and Polished’ that the government has licensed several companies to do diamond exploration following the discovery of vast diamond resources in the Gaza province last month.
De Sousa said the country had received Angolan help towards the formalisation of the new diamond mining industry, which includes both alluvial and underground mineralisation. He said KPCS certification was needed to allow the companies which had recovered diamonds to sell them to the global market.
“In the southern zone, they have found diamonds of good quality. I have seen some of the diamonds found in this region and in the north, some companies have found kimberlites, but they are yet to prove if they were economical to mine,” said De Sousa.
He said the government had set up a supervisory agency to regulate the diamond business and established a local Kimberley Process Management Unit. Local mining officials had visited Belgium, Namibia and Angola for training on how to regularise and secure the new diamond trading business.
However, he said the country could not declare the size of the diamond resource estimate for security reasons.

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Nigeria slides into recession

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Nigeria slides into recession

Nigeria’s gross domestic product contracted by 2.06% in the second quarter, the statistics office said on Wednesday, sending Africa’s biggest economy into a recession after a decline in the first quarter.
The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics said the non-oil sector declined due to a weaker currency while lower oil prices dragged the oil sector down. Output shrank by 0.36% in the first quarter.
Nigeria is in the midst of an economic crisis triggered by a slump in crude prices, its mainstay, which has hammered public finances and the naira and caused chronic dollar shortages.
Crude sales account for around 70% of government revenues.
The West African nation was last in a recession, for less than a year, in 1991, and experienced a prolonged one that started in 1982 and last until 1984, NBS data showed.
On Wednesday, the statistics office also said annual inflation rose to 17.1% in July from 16.5% in June, and food inflation rose to 15.8% from 15.3%.

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