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With the aim of inspiring young
people that come from socioeconomically volatile homes, two
local non-profit organisations
have launched a programme that
is meant to inspire and motivate
young people within the Katutura
and Windhoek area.
With Namibia’s socioeconomic
conditions still leaving much to be
desired, pertaining particularly to
the youth, Physically Active Youth
Namibia (PAY) and the National
Young Women Association of Namibia (NYWA) established a partnership and created the I-inspire
Namibia movement.
The I-Inspire movement is a
monthly motivational talk and mentoring programme that is held at the
Katutura Multi-Purpose Youth Centre. The programme is aimed at inspiring young people, mainly Grades
8 to 12, who use the various youth facilities at the centre and those from
surrounding areas in Katutura.
The aim is to inspire participants
to see beyond their circumstances
and envision a future of themselves
as successful professionals empowering themselves, their families and
helping to develop Namibia to become a prosperous nation.
The I-inspire Namibia platform
consists of the following components:
Motivational talks
The motivational talks will consist of short talks given by accomplished individuals from diferent
walks of life, be it sports, arts, business or any other formal career. Namibian professionals will be invited
to share their stories with Namibian
youth from mostly underprivileged
backgrounds with the aim of them
inspiring the youth with their experiences and advice of how they overcame life’s challenges to succeed.
Mentoring programme
The mentoring programme will
consist of small groups of participants led by mentors. The mentorship groups will discuss the motivational talks and various issues facing
participants in their everyday lives,
in order to help them make the right
choices in life. There will also be
various activities aimed at motivating and encouraging participants.
The participants will be tasked with
setting goals for themselves and
they will be expected to meet them
during the course of the year.
The participants will be accountable to group members and the mentor to achieve the goals they have set
for themselves.
Harambee Youth
Awards coming
SAY NO TO DRUGS: Many of oranjemund’s residents took part in the
ing.
has have contributed immensely to the
and illicit traickthe youth of Namibia in diverse independence, the country
HYA seeks to
been growing and developing, yet Namibian nation, the
precincts.
to have award the youth who are under the
The Harambee Prosperity Plan young people don’t seem
Named after the
recognises age of 35, who have made strides
(HPP) is the same plan that in- found a body which
president’s campaign
made in their towards empowering themselves
spired the birth of the Haram- the strides they have
specialities. as well as the others, who in esmeant to elevate
bee Youth Awards, to appreciate various industries and
need in“On many occasions when the sence are the youth that
youth that have overcome many
thousands of Namibians
many tend spiration,” Haihambo reminded
challenges and diiculties in life youth is mentioned,
in terms of the nation.
out of poverty, the
to achieve what they have always to think of the youth
Haihambo also expressed that
tertiary stuwanted to achieve and to also en- school-going learners,
Harambee Youth Awards
culture, but the aspirations of the youth of Nacourage them by saying that “they dents, sports, arts and
than just mibia cannot be separated from
are vowing to be the
are not alone this ight”, and that there is more to the youth
founders ex- the aspirations of the nation as a
we as a nation are ighting togeth- those categories,” the
best youth appreciation
whole.
er to achieve a common purpose; plained.
“The perspective on what the
platform in the country.
Citing that in recent years the
a purpose to prosper, a purpose to
really well national youth awards seeks to
succeed and a purpose to make Na- youth have been doing
the economic
considering the socio-political achieve within
ater this year, the brain child of mibia a better place for everyone and economic obstacles they face sphere of Namibia and why its exNelson Haihambo, the found- so that no one is left out.
of the istence is essential to carry out its
HYA 2016 is a youth project, pre- in the country, the founders
er of the Harambee Youth
is the urgent need
under HYA felt that it was time to create vital objectives,
Awards (HYA), will be coming into pared by a few Namibians
that can cel- to serve as an important tool for
the leadership of Nelson Haiham- a legitimate platform
fruition.
the achieve- youth empowerment whereby the
bo, who is the founder and innova- ebrate and highlight
awards
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Staff RepoRteR
The Mayor of Oranjemund
recently spoke on the
efects that drug and
alcohol abuse have on the
youth.
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s part of the United Nations’
International Day against
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LEADERSHIP: the mayor of oranjemund giving his keynote address
International Day against Drug abuse and Illicit traicking. PHOTOS: CONTRIBUTED
jemund Private School and Ambrosius Amutenya Primary School,
Namdeb employees and members
of Nampol.
Speaking at the event, Oranjemund mayor, Henry Coetzee,
vowed the council’s unwavering
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main aims and objectives are that
the youth be acknowledged for
their capacity and ability, skills,
talent and so forth,” the concept
note for the HYA stated.
Youth from all 14 regions are going to be represented amongst the
nominees for the various awards,
The challenges of Namibia
R
emember those sweaty hands and anxious conversations right before an exam?
Hopefully, you also remember the conident assurance deep down that you can do
this, because you know your stuf. You’ve
studied hard, put in the hours, made sure
you understood the work. And hopefully, all
of this culminated in you writing an exam –
managing your time and banking points – so
that you were satisied with your results.
Was the exam a challenge? Yes! Was it insurmountable? No!
Now let’s broaden our viewpoint considerably. Just like an examination is this massive obstacle looming in your way, so we as a
country face tremendous challenges. Chal-
Dawie Fourie Jr is a 16-year-old Namibian
that is currently heading the Junior Council
for the coming term. Read all about him and
more inspirational stories in your weekly youth
supplement, The Zone, inside.
commitment to make Oranjemund
town drug free. He made an appeal to the community to stand together in rooting out drugs and alcohol abuse. “The saddest part is
that the dealers target our youth,
and therefore are destroying our
VISIONARY: Nelson Haihambo, the
founder of the Harambee Youth
Awards. PHoto: Contributed
that will lead to the
cessful prosecution of anyone dealing in drugs.
At the same event remarks from
Namdeb general manager were
read by Francis Milomo, and highlighted the destructive impact substance abuse has on employees,
who are often the breadwinners in
the family. “In line with our values,
Namdeb adopted a zero tolerance
stance towards alcohol and drug
abuse in the workplace. Namdeb
pledged its continued support and
commitment to work with the relevant authorities to eliminate drug
alcohol abuse.”
Other activities involved sharing of local crime statistics by
Detective Warrant Officer Anton Isaacs from the Oranjemund
police and an enlightening presentation and exhibits on various
drugs by the drug squad representatives from Keetmanshoop.
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Drug Abuse and Illicit Traficking, Namdeb collaborated with
the relevant local stakeholders to
commemorate the event on Friday,
24 June 2016 at the Oranjemund
Youth Centre. The day declared by
the United Nations is aimed at raising awareness of the major problem that illicit drugs represent to
society.
The activities started of with a
march from Town Square through
town to the Youth Centre. The
participants in the march mainly
comprised of learners from Oran-
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THE RESIDENTS OF ORANJEMUND TAKE TO STREETS AGAINST DRUGS
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tioning like supportive units, parents expecting of schools to do their work and scholars
dropping out of school despite how much we
spend on education, to name but a few.
Now let me be painfully blunt: These are
NOT our government’s problems. They are
OURS! We have this tremendous privilege of
living in a stable, well-run country. We have
great leaders. We have Harambee. It is now
our responsibility to think not of ourselves
alone and of what we can get out of our citizenship. We must BE citizens. We must think
of the nation and about how each of us can
contribute. We must dream and devise solutions for our challenges. WE must put in the
hard yards.
efort. A lot of it.
We’ve done so well to get where we are. Our
leaders, our parents and our peers. We have
this wonderful foundation to build on, but if
we don’t build soon and build well, it would
ALL have been for naught and THAT is a
crying shame that should not be allowed to
transpire while a single true Namibian still
has breath.
Our freedom was bought by the blood of our
fathers, but our prosperity will be built with
OUR sweat.
Until next time, study hard, study well, play
hard, play clean, write hard, write right. And
our country forward
do your part to move
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at it.
while you’re
known to be innovative and
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Health ministry denies responsibility
Men found with cocaine
The Ministry of Health and Social Services has washed its hands of the crisis at
the overlowing Windhoek police mortuary, saying its responsibility is limited to
unclaimed bodies at government health
centres. The ministry says it follows
Two men were arrested at the weekend in Walvis Bay and in Windhoek
for being in possession of cocaine. At
Walvis Bay, the police arrested Temwani Mkandawire (24), a Zambian
national who was caught with 100
established procedures to bury unclaimed
bodies, by irst identifying them through
the Ministry of Home Afairs and Immigration and then seeking authorisation
from the Ministry of Justice
to conduct burials.
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grams of cocaine powder (10 bullets)
with an estimated street value of
N$50 000. Mkandawire appeared
before Magistrate Eden Iyambo who
postponed the case to
29 September.
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SPARE PARTS ARE AVAILABLE: EMBASSY
Amarika water
woes continue
and Forestry in 2010, and has never
been operational since then.
ILENI NANDJATO
Villagers in the North say
a donated desalination
plant worked for only four
months, despite denials by
the German embassy.
N$200m from BMBF
S
alom Amutenya, the headman of
Amarika village, says the quality
of the village’s water poses a serious health threat.
Despite the presence of a N$200million desalination plant, he called
on the government to supply them
with drinking water because the
plant isn’t working and well water in
the area is saline.
On Friday Namibian Sun visited
the isolated Amarika community in
the Ongandjera grazing area of the
Sheya Shuushona Conservancy.
The visit followed a response from
the German embassy to a previous
report which stated that the community was drinking water laced
with nitrates because the government failed to maintain a desalination plant donated by Germany six
years ago. The embassy downplayed
this report, saying it was incorrect.
HARD WORK: Boys fetch water from a seven-metre-deep well which is about
five metres from the desalination plant. PHOTO: ILENI NANDJATO
Namibian Sun reported that in
2006, the German/Namibia research
project CuveWaters, through Integrated Water Resources Management with funds from the German
education and research ministry
(BMBF), installed two solar-powered
desalination plants at Amarika and
Akutsima for N$200 million.
The system is capable of producing 3.3 cubic metres of clean drinking water daily, but came to a halt immediately after it was handed over to
the Ministry of Agriculture, Water
Gundula Perry from the embassy
said that in 2006 CuveWaters started
a ten-year project with N$200 million funding from the BMBF. The
project was aimed at establishing a
bundle of diferent technologies for
sustainable water supply and sanitation, rain- and loodwater harvesting combined with gardening at Epyeshona and Iipopo, sanitation and
the reuse of treated wastewater for
agricultural production at Outapi, as
well as small-scale groundwater desalination at Amarika and Akutsima.
“After the inauguration in 2010 the
plant in Amarika and other two in
Akutsima were operational for more
than three years with only short interruptions,” she said.
“Monitoring of the plants was conducted by the engineering partners.
In November 2013, the plants were
oicially handed over to MAWF. In
March/April and November 2015,
the MAWF and CuveWaters agreed
on inal optimisation and maintenance works.
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Residents turn Langstrand into no-go zone
PROHIBITED AREA: The contentious fence, which prevents people driving along the beach from the direction of Dolphin Park. PHOTO: OTIS FINCK
OTIS FINCK
The Walvis Bay municipality is
investigating complaints that
some Langstrand property owners are denying the public access
to the beach.
People visiting the beach at Lang-
Find us on
Kazenambo:
Germany
must
apologise
strand recently were apparently
informed that it is of limits.
A boundary was erected without
consent from the municipality and
it creates the impression that the
portion of the beach in front of the
houses is reserved for residents.
“We are looking into the issue and
should we ind that it needs to be
addressed we will do so accordingly,” commented municipal spokesperson Kevin Adams.
Property owners apparently erected a barrier consisting of concrete
railway sleepers and put up signs
prohibiting 4x4 driving and quad-
bike riding on the beach.
“The constructed boundary effectively prevents free access for
persons driving along the coastline
from Dolphin Park and bars others from entering the area from a
southern direction,” a member of
the public told Namibian Sun.
HEATED: Firebrand Swapo politician Kazenambo Kazenambo
says Germany is “arrogant”.
PHOTO: JEMIMA BEUKES
JEMIMA BEUKES
Firebrand Swapo politician
Kazenambo Kazenambo has
accused the Namibian government of playing “ostrich
politics” by hiding its head in
the sand while the German
government “insults” the descendants of the 1904-1908
Nama and OvaHerero genocide.
This followed a statement by
the German ambassador to
Namibia, Christian Schlaga,
last week that Germany has
no intention to pay reparation
money.
He also took issue with German
Special Envoy Ruprecht Polenz
saying that Namibia must speed
up the negotiating process because Germany is heading for
elections that could change the
make-up of its government.
According to Kazenambo there
have been plenty of elections in
Germany that have not afected
the case of the Nama and OvaHerero people.
“What gives these Germans the
audacity to come and tell us
that they are having elections
in their country? What does
the election got to do with the
crimes against humanity they
have committed here? Whether
they have elections or not, they
must know that they have committed crimes and they cannot
wash it away. They must in a
civil manner engage the afected people,” he said.
According to the former Cabinet member this “arrogant” approach of Polenz and Schlaga
is “neo-Nazi behaviour” and
makes the Namibian government look like a puppet.
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HEALTH MINISTRY ‘NOT RESPONSIBLE’ FOR PAUPER’S BURIALS
Burglars
dump dead
friend’s body
Police request
funds for
cremation
GORDON JOSEPH
A man’s body was thrown from
a moving car after a burglary
went wrong at Okashopasha village in the Omusati Region on
Friday night.
Asser Shilomboleni (32) was
among a group of suspected burglars who were trying to break into
a shebeen when a security guard
ired shots at them.
The robbers got into a car and
drove of. Shilomboleni, who was
wounded, apparently died in the
getaway car.
His accomplices then threw his
body from the car.
The body was discovered the
next morning at Onalunkono vil-
Kazenambo
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“This German ambassador and
his so-called envoy, they must
shut up. They must talk to their
sovereign [government] who
appointed them.
“They have no business having
press conferences here, and
telling us that they are not going
to pay money or aid.
“Who asked them that we
want aid?” he asked. According
to Kazenambo the German
delegation’s conduct defied
any norms of negotiation and is
radicalising Namibians who feel
the negotiations are nonsense.
“They are putting a powder
cake and they are spoiling
relationships with us.
“This pronouncement of these
Germans I am telling you is
ridiculing our government.
“It appears as if our government
is a number one in the world
puppet. It appears as if this envoy
behaves like Heinrich Ernst
Göring and as if Namibia is a new
colonial Germany [sic],” he said.
Göring was a German jurist and
diplomat who served as colonial
governor of the then German
South-West Africa.
Kazenambo further accused
the Germans of being “criminals
who think they can talk down to
Namibians and ofer aid as if they
are uninformed people unaware
that Germany gives aid to many
nations across the world”.
He also questioned whether
the development aid Germany
gives to Israel is connected to
the reparations the German
government paid to the Jews for
the Holocaust.
“Why are they arrogantly
talking about aid here? If they are
not talking about aid in Israel, is
it because here they are dealing
with blacks?” he asked.
EXHAUSTIVE: While police morgue technicians go out of their way to notify the relatives of deceased people, many
refrain from collecting the bodies due to high funeral costs. PHOTO: JANA-MARI SMITH
T
he Ministry of Health and Social Services has washed its
hands of the crisis at the overlowing Windhoek police mortuary,
saying its responsibility is limited
to unclaimed bodies at government
health centres.
A news release on Friday stated that the ministry follows established procedures to bury unclaimed bodies, by irst identifying
them through the Ministry of Home
Afairs and Immigration and then
seeking authorisation from the
Ministry of Justice to conduct burials.
Andreas Mwoombola, permanent
secretary at the health ministry,
explained that “in circumstances
where resources allow, the ministry
assists the Namibian Police in Khomas Region to dispose of their unclaimed bodies, however this does
not make it a responsibility of the
ministry.”
The state mortuary is situated
in the same building as the police
mortuary, close to the Windhoek
Central Hospital.
Mwoombola emphasised that the
ministry has “one responsibility towards the Namibian Police, which
Water crisis
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“As a result the plants were fully
functional with the exception of
one at Akutsima but which could
be repaired without specialised
spare parts.
The CuveWaters project inished
at the end of 2015. Since 2010,
training was an integral part of the
NAMIBIA
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Windhoek
is to provide medical doctors for
conducting post-mortems.”
Namibian Sun has been reporting
on the crisis at the police morgue in
Windhoek, where unclaimed bodies have piled up to such an extent
that post-mortems have had to be
delayed until space could be found
for the latest arrivals.
The police mortuary, designed
to hold 24 bodies, now holds about
180.
Yesterday, the police conirmed
that discussions were under way
with the Attorney-General and the
Ministry of Finance and a request
for N$5 million had been submitted
to help the police forensic pathology division cover the cremation
costs of unclaimed bodies.
Police Inspector-General Sebastian Ndeitunga said this would be
the only solution to the crisis.
The N$5 million will tide over the
police morgue until the next inancial year.
Ndeitunga said the AttorneyGeneral would look into relevant
legislation to prevent a recurrence
of the problem.
The police chief said the problem
was caused by people refusing to
collect the bodies of dead relatives
for burial.
Last week Deputy Commissioner
Jooste Mbandeka, head of the Namibian Police’s forensic pathology
division, described the situation at
the mortuary as “catastrophic”.
Dr Paul Ludik, head of the National Forensic Science Institute,
said the mortuary is meant for temporary storage until post-mortems
can be performed.
Ludik said mortuary staf do everything possible to identify bodies
and notify the deceased’s relatives,
but many families fail to claim the
bodies. Many say that high funeral
costs are the reason for the lack of
response.
project,” Perry said.
On Friday community members
told Namibian Sun that in 2010
when the plant started operating,
they only used it for about three
months after which it broke.
It stood idle until it was repaired
in 2015.
Again it only functioned for one
month and on 1 January this year, it
stopped operating again.
“Those who are trained were only
shown how to operate the system,
but not on technical and electronic
aspects of the system.
They cannot detect what is wrong
if the system stops operating,” said
a community member.
Perry said almost all the spare
parts needed for the system can be
obtained in Namibia and additional
spare parts are kept on site. She
added that Namibian service
providers have the expertise to ix
JANA-MARI SMITH
The Namibian Police have
requested an emergency
budget of N$5 million
for cremating unclaimed
bodies paralysing the
police mortuary in
Windhoek.
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Economic ruins
The outspoken politician said
Germany must be mindful that
even major problems.
Since there is no other water
source at Amarika, people are using
water from wells and boreholes.
They say this water is making them
ill.
Johannes Iyambo, regional
councillor for the Otamanzi
Constituency, said the regional
council tries to give people
drinking water using the council’s
water tanker, but they only have
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lage in the Oshana Region.
Shimboleni was from Oipapakane village in the Ohangwena Region.
A statement made by the security guard will be forwarded to the
Prosecutor-General for a decision
on whether to prosecute.
At Okahao, a 26-year-old man allegedly hanged himself behind the
police station.
The police do not suspect foul
play.
Another suicide took place at
Omolho village on Friday when
26-year-old Fillipus Vataleni
hanged himself from a tree behind
his homestead.
He was discovered by relatives
on the same day at around 18:00.
At Gibeon in the Hardap Region,
a 20-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a 34-year-old man. It is
alleged that the woman was walking from Gibeon to catch a ride to
Keetmanshoop when a man followed her and raped her.
their government caused the
economic hardship the Nama and
Ovaherero people still sufer and
that Germans are still beneitting
from this disadvantage.
According to him Namibians
cannot even bury their loved ones
with their grandparents because
their ancestral land is now in the
hands of Germans.
“There is a game range near
Okahandja, it was the settlements
of the Karamatas and the Kukuris
and the Kasutos, some of them are
now in the south after they were
dislodged from that place which
is now owned by a German. So we
can list places where the Namas
can tell you, ‘we were living
here’,” he said.
KAZENAMBO KAZENAMBO
Germany has got
business interest here,
we see them, and they
are setting prices for the
land which determine
the economic outlook
of the country. They
are pursuing business
interest on top of our
parents’ graves.
Kazenambo said the German
government must, therefore,
for the sake of peace and
reconciliation encourage its
citizens who are absentee
landlords in Namibia to
relinquish their land to the
Namibian government.
“These farms are bearing our
OvaHerero and Nama names, but
people are claiming we have not
lost anything. Germany has got
business interest here, we see
them, and they are setting prices
for the land which determine the
economic outlook of the country.
“They are pursuing business
interest on top of our parents’
graves,” he said.
one tanker that supplies water
to ive constituencies afected
by water crisis. The tanker only
supplies water once a month to
each point.
“We at Amarika are lucky to have
the water storage facility of the
desalination plant.
We ill it with water so they can use
for about three days because we
can’t ill all of them, the tanker is
very small,” Iyambo said.
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