Arandis gears up for the next five years
Mayor Risto Kapendah launches town’s strategic Five Year Plan (2019 -2024) The Arandis Town Council launched its Strategic Plan for the period 2019 – 2024 for this Erongo town last Friday. The strategic plan identified focus areas: joint venture participation, public utility supply, industrialisation, support services and logistics. Council also adopted an inward-strategy to increase […]
A new voice
Rudi Bowe A committee was elected recently from members of the Narraville community, to serve as the voice of the people on issues affecting the everyday lives of people in this suburb of Walvis Bay. The meeting was held at the community hall and this committee among others would engage the town council and other […]
Walvis Bay sparkles at ATKV speakers
Eleven school learners from Namibia, seven of them from the Erongo region, participated in the ATKV competition in South Africa. Angelica Basson of the International School of Walvis Bay is the overall winner in the Afrikaans additional language grade 8 and 9 in the unprepared for the ATKV public speaking competition. She was also named […]
Council avails funds for shack fire victims
Sharlien Tjambari With the increase numbers in shack fires, the Swakopmund Municipality saw the need to assist the fire victims not only with tents and food packages, but to renovate the houses affected by shack fires. The municipality availed a total of N$67 060.20 towards the renovations recently. After requests for donations by the fire […]
Consternation in Union Street
A truck carrying an 86 tons bridge component, destined for Botswana via the Botswana Dry Port in the port of Walvis Bay, broke down in Union Street on Tuesday night. As a result, the component had to be offloaded from the truck, prompting the closure of a section the street. Walvis Bay Plant & Tool […]
All Export Containers Successfully and Safely Moved To The New Container Terminal
Gearing up towards operations at the Namport New Container Terminal Over the just ended weekend, staff members from the operations department at Namport were seen hard at work as they were tasked with the mammoth job of relocating all containers from the current container yard to the newly build container terminal on reclaimed land popularly […]
Former town councillor Maria Likooa dies
Former Councillor for the Council of the Municipality of Walvis Bay, Alderwoman Maria Likooa, has died. Clr Likooa served as local authority politician for 29 years before her retirement in November 2009. During her tenure Clr Likooa served on the Senior Citizens Committee and was also a trustee of the local authority pension fund. She […]
Selling live pangolin to police officer
An Omaruru man made two big mis-takes recently – firstly trying to sell a live pangolin to an undercover policeman and then resisting arrest en-ding up being shot and wounded by the officer. The pangolin is valued at N$50 000. The incident occurred at Omaruru at a place known as the Omaruru-Uis hitch hiking spot. […]
Namcor lands five year fuel supply contract with Husab Mine
Sharlien Tjambari The National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor) will be Swakop Uranium’s contracted supplier of diesel to the Husab Mine for the next five years. The two entities signed an agreement in this regard recently. The contract is worth N$3.2 billion. The contract includes the operation and maintenance of bulk storage, dispensing and a […]
Suspended Choppies CEO cries foul over forensic reports to shareholders
Legal and forensic reports into Choppies Enterprises Limited, circulated to shareholders via Botswana’s X-News and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange News Service (SENS) are unfair and biased – and appear designed to embarrass him rather than informing shareholders, says suspended CEO, Mr Ramchandran (Ram) Ottapathu. Mr Ottapathu was responding to a Choppies Enterprises Limited shareholders’ circular […]