Zambezi region – Windhoek Observer

04 Aug

Community courts impacted by lack of funds

ObserverNational NewsCommunity courts impacted by lack of funds, Mayeye Community Court, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs, Zambezi region

Martin Endjala Community courts are finding it hard to carry out their day-to-day duties due to the lack of funds and are left to oversee piling cases that require funding. The courts are presided over by traditional leaders. This was revealed yesterday by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs currently conducting oversight visits to the Zambezi Region. The courts also experience difficulty in paying proper allowances and salaries to its clerks, justices, messengers of courts and assessors, including lack of transport which makes it difficult for messengers to deliver summons on time, as well as the lack…

13 Dec

Married police officers prioritised for accommodation

ObserverObserver MoneyNAMIBIAN Police Inspector General, Sebastian Ndeitunga, Zambezi region

Eba Kandovazu NAMIBIAN Police Inspector General, Sebastian Ndeitunga, says married police officers in the Zambezi region would receive first priority for accommodation in the newly donated flats. At the anding over of the Sanzila court, by the Muadinohamba Family Trust, Ndeitunga noted that it is concerning that married police officers reside in police barracks, which he says are not convenient to “feel at home” and also for their integrity as family unit. Ndeitunga stresses that police officers stationed at Katima Mulilo travel long distances from villages to provide policing services, while others stay in rented houses due to lack of…

05 Jun

Namibia sorely in need of leftist ideological sanity

ObserverUncategorisedGerson Tjihenuna, Lucy Edwards-Jauch, Namibia sorely in need of leftist ideological sanity, Zambezi region

Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro Last Saturday the Activist School hosted a day-long seminar with renowned activists and ideologues like Lucy Edwards-Jauch, Gerson Tjihenuna and Shaun Whitaker from the Marxists Study Group. The seminar attracted participants from far afield as the Zambezi region, predominantly young people with a healthy balance of gender. It is encouraging to see such a blend taking a keen interest in the debate or/and seminar unpacking the virtues and vices and/or merits and demerits of Socialism versus Capitalism. Especially in a country like Namibia, that while emerging from Colonial Capitalism, have been seeming a-ideological if not unideological and anti-ideological.…

10 Nov

Agribank inaugurates new regional office

ObserverUncategorisedAgribank, Katima Mulilo, Zambezi region

Staff Writer Agribank has inaugurated its newly relocated regional office in Katima Mulilo on Friday, to improve its client experience as well as to ensure conducive working environment for staff when servicing farmers and potential farmers in the Zambezi region. Though the Bank has been operational for some years in the town, the new office according to the lender, elevates the it’s visibility and accessibility to clients and other stakeholders. Zambezi Regional Governor Lawrence Sampofu in a speech read on his behalf said the opening of the new Agribank office in Katima Mulilo is a welcome expression of the trust…