Close to 1300 learners still need to find placement in the Kavango East Region.
Despite this, the acting education director, Christine Silima, is adamant that they will be accommodated when schools reopen next week.
High HIV infection and transmission in the Kavango East Region has prompted the new health director in the region to urge the community to offer love and support to the affected and infected.
The Office of the Governor of the Kavango East Region, in cooperation with the Watjako Foundation, held an early Christmas party for the people with leprosy at Muroro Village.
The governor of Kavango East Region says the region's leadership is determined to fight criminal activities there.
Bonifatius Wakudumo made the commitment during the leadership's meeting with Police Inspector General Joseph Shikongo.
The Acting Regional Commander of Kavango East says law enforcement officers who are drowning in debt find it difficult to perform official duties.
Civil servants in the Kavango East Region are unhappy with the proposed Financial Institutions and Markets Act (FIMA) regulation of 75% preservation from their pension fund.
The regulation only allows 25% access to the pension fund upon retirement.
The Vice President of the Namibian Public Passenger Transport Association (NPPT) in the Kavango East Region, Tobias Katembo, says the money collected from taxi drivers is used to pay for the administration of all functions, such as the issuing of yellow stickers.
Taxi drivers in the Kavango East Region want the Namibia Public Passenger Transport Association (NPPTA) to stop operating in the region.
They held a demonstration in Rundu, claiming the NPPTA office collects charges from them, but they do not see what the money is used for.
A number of people in Namibia are expected to experience food insecurity. The Kavango East Region alone fears for the livelihoods of about 15 000 households.
An office building that was constructed five years ago to accommodate staff members of the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism in the Kavango East Region's Mukwe Constituency is yet to be occupied.
The building is now dilapidated.
