The Leader of the Hai||om San Gaob Dawid ||Khamuxab, aged 74, handed over the chieftaincy to his first son, Alfred ||Khamuxab, during the Hai||om San Cultural Festival at Seringkop farm in Outjo.
The Hai||om San Traditional Authority hosted the Hai||om Cultural Festival at Seringkop Farm in the Outjo Constituency, Kunene Region.
Hai||om Chief Dawid ||Khamuxab also graced the event despite ill health.
Okakarara Constituency Councillor Ramana Mutjavikua has called on the government to promote irrigation funding as a long term solution to drought resilience.
Mutjavikua was speaking at the 16th edition of the Okakarara Annual Trade Fair.
The Deputy Minister of Education, Arts, and Culture, Faustina Caley, has called on schools to utilise their funds for the intended purposes.
Caley spoke at the Otjozondjupa Regional Education Directorate's state of education consultative meeting at Otjiwarongo.
The distribution of drought relief food in the Otjozondjupa Region's periurban areas is still moving at a snail's pace due to a lack of transport with only one truck in the region.
Deputy Prime Minister John Mutorwa has thus asked the region to advertise its need for trucks.
Kalkfeld residents can now make their own bricks, following the handover of a brick-making project by the Otjozondjupa Regional Council.
Situated about 70 km from Otjiwarongo, Kalkfeld is a settlement with more than 5,000 inhabitants.
While many Namibians spent the day commemorating Heroes' Day, others took to the streets, demanding the government implement a Basic Income Grant (BIG) for unemployed citizens up to age 59.
Descendants of the Batswana of Namibia who renounced their citizenship two to three years ago are preparing to return home.
They will be taken to the Dobe border post near Gam on August 23rd.
The Otjozondjupa Region received 1,268 applications for resettlement purposes this year, of which only five were resettled.
In his State of the Region Address, Governor James Uerikua says the demand for resettlement surpasses the supply.
Namibia's fuel, wood, and charcoal exports generated over N$102 billion last year, and the Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism is satisfied with the recent growth in the biomass sector.
Minister Pohamba Shifeta remarked on this at the opening of the Standard Bank Biomass Fair at Otjiwarongo.
