Learning at Shalom Primary School in Otavi, Otjozondjupa Region, came to a halt on Monday after concerned parents kept their children at home in protest over the school’s severely deteriorated toilet facilities.
Residents of Otavi in the Otjozondjupa Region gathered on Saturday to celebrate World Music Day, an international event that highlights the power of music in promoting cultural diversity, social cohesion and economic development.
An ophthalmologist has stepped up to carry out an operation on a learner who is on the verge of losing his eyesight.
The good Samaritan responded after seeing a social media post about Ruston !Gudaob, a grade four pupil at Shalom Primary School in Otavi.
Otavi Town Council has dismissed claims that contractors have abandoned the sewer and reticulation works at New Cairo informal settlement, where trenches have been left open for some time now.
To help boost learning outcomes for vulnerable school-going children, Hangala Foods has donated bags of maize meal to two school feeding programmes at Otavi.
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has promised to ensure the decongestion of overpopulated informal settlements through the informal settlement upgrading programme.
President Nandi-Ndaitwah promised this during a meet-and-greet of Swapo Party members and sympathisers along the B1 road in Otavi.
Landless residents of Otavi's Kap En Bou are unhappy about the temporary suspension of the plot allocation waiting list, saying some of them have been waiting for the past nine years.
The Deputy Minister of Industries, Mines, and Energy has praised the Otavi Town Council's Otavi Dream Initiative for its contribution to sustainable development.
Addressing the project relaunch, Gaudentia Kröhne said the gathering brought together players in the sector to nurture initiatives.
With Otavi being at the centre of road accidents, Otjozondjupa Governor John ||Khamuseb expressed the need for the expansion of the health centre.
The governor made this statement while handing over two wheelchairs to the health centre.
Otjozondjupa Governor John ||Khamuseb said Otavi should be developed along the main B1 road.
The governor was addressing the Otavi Community Development Committee as part of his three-day visit to the town.
