The recent Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak has dealt a major blow to the Keetmanshoop Agricultural Industrial and Tourism Expo (KAITE), forcing organisers to drop the livestock section at this year's Expo.
The expo is scheduled from 27 to 31 October.
Third-year education students from the University of Namibia's Southern Campus have donated 10 trees to Hendrik Tseib Primary School in Keetmanshoop on Friday.
The initiative aims to support biodiversity and promote a more sustainable, cleaner, and healthier school environment for learners and teachers.
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.
Agriculture has the potential to change the lives of young Namibians.
This was the message by the Director of Youth Development Nicolars Tembwe at the official opening of the Youth Agriculture Cooperatives Workshop held in Keetmanshoop.
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 just sworn-in Keetmanshoop Town Council office bearer, Gertzon Witbooi, has pledged to work with fellow councillors across party lines for the betterment of the residents.
A family at Keetmanshoop's Paradise Informal Settlement has blamed the municipality for their house burning down to ashes. They claim that the damage could have been contained had there been water available.
People with disabilities in Keetmanshoop have appealed to ||Kharas Governor Dawid Gertze, requesting assistance to ensure they also benefit from the recently introduced increase of 100 in the old-age pension grant.
The National Integrated Campaign for Non-communicable Diseases and the commemoration of Oral Health Week were launched in Keetmanshoop today.
The event aims to promote disease prevention and highlight the link between oral and overall health.
