The Directorate of Veterinary Services has commenced with compulsory Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccination in the ||Kharas Region's Karasburg state veterinary district.
The Karasburg veterinary district is the epicenter since its outbreak on a farm.
The government intends to build an animal disease control fence in the ||Kharas Region that will stretch from Klein Manasse, Aroab Village, south of Keetmanshoop to Naute Dam and then continue to the Fish River Canyon.
This was revealed in a veterinary public notice government issued.
The ||Kharas Police Commander, Marius Katamila, has rejected rumours of ritual killings at Noordoewer.
Local authorities and regional councils in ||Kharas and Hardap owe NamPower millions of dollars, with Mariental Municipality carrying the largest reported debt at N$295.9 million.
The Keetmanshoop Magistrates' Court has struck from the court roll the murder case of Jeffrey Dirks.
Dirks was arrested on Saturday at Keetmanshoop on the allegation that he murdered his 39-year-old girlfriend, Wilhelmina Waterboer.
Stakeholders in the ||Kharas Region have validated proposed amendments of the Lotteries Regulations and Gambling and Gambling Activities Regulations.
The Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism conducted a validation workshop in Keetmanshoop.
The Keetmanshoop branch of the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) has appealed to all stakeholders in the agriculture value chain to fully comply with the Foot-and-Mouth restrictions and biosecurity measures.
The Governor of the ||Kharas Region, Dawid Gertze, has urged residents to strictly comply with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) restrictions and implement biosecurity measures.
He made the call during an emergency multisectoral regional engagement on the FMD situation held in Keetmanshoop.
Namibian cultures should unite rather than divide the country.
That was the key message of the ||Kharas Governor Dawid Gertze, urging students of the University of Namibia Southern Campus during the official opening of their annual cultural festival in Keetmanshoop.
The Keetmanshoop Town Council has engaged the Rosh Pinah mine management to strengthen skills development collaboration, paving a way for a potential Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
The parties held the engagement in Rosh Pinah.
