Edda Bohn, the Deputy Executive Director of the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture, has revealed that nine out of 10 children are not meeting the minimum literacy requirements by age 10.
Voter turnout for the regional council and local authority elections has seen a drastic decline from 81% in 1992 to 38% in 2020.
IIkwambi said that, despite a recent modest upward trend in local authority elections, they remain lower than national elections, and this, he said, is not impressive.
The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) has announced a major staff retrenchment, reducing its workforce from 49 to 14 employees due to financial constraints following the recent elections.
The leaders of the Landless People's Movement criticised the Minister of Urban and Rural Development, James Sankwasa, for allegedly intimidating regional and local councillors and attempting to impose the Swapo Party manifesto over constitutional governance.
Members of Parliament in the National Assembly have raised concerns that women’s empowerment initiatives are excluding rural women and neglecting the needs of boys in empowerment campaigns.
