One of Namibia’s most
promising young athletes is already eyeing up the 2012 Olympic Games after a
gold medal at the National Mountain Bike championships on Sunday. Ermin VanWyk,
the 21-year-old cycling sensation who pedalled away with the top honours in the
national mountain biking series this season, took the under-23 title. Ermin Van
Wyk (left) seen with BEN Namibia [...]

Hope
Village thus week inaugurated new homes for orphaned children that will be run
on individual basis by mothers living with the children. The additional newly
built homes will accommodate children from across the country. Global Compact
Network Namibia is part of the Hope Village project and looks forward to the
commitment to expand Hope Village. According to Global Compact [...]

Sanlam Investment
Management Namibia will next week host the Sanlam Employee Benefits (SEB)
Symposium in Windhoek. Sanlam said this week that the symposium will be filled
with topical, as well as inherently contentious discussions and enlightening
results from the annual survey of Sanlam Employee Benefits. Tega Shiimi ya
Shiimi, Sanlam Investment Management Namibia CEO. The symposium will feature
analysis from various [...]

(IRIN)-Hundreds of
thousands of undocumented Namibian children may be deprived of social service
benefits, but a new government initiative launched at one of the country’s
busiest hospitals hopes to change all that. Department of Home Affairs and
Immigration officials have been deployed to an on-site office at Katutura State
Hospital in the capital of Windhoek to streamline and improve access [...]

Size matters, so says
the Ministry of Health and Social Services, which has just unveiled a new Smile
condom targeting men with small private parts, especially 14 to 18 years olds.
Instead of encouraging the use of the whip to discourage teenagers from
indulging in sexual activities, the ministry has sparked controversy with the
new introduction. Commentators say the condom, [...]

Botswana, Namibia and South Africa lead the African
continent in promoting prosperity, the 2008 Legatum Prosperity Index revealed
this week. The index defines prosperity as a holistic combination of material
wealth and life satisfaction, measuring how well nations are promoting both
economic growth and quality of life. Australia holds the top spot, narrowly
ahead of Austria and Finland; Yemen ranks [...]

The Ambassador of Spain to
Namibia, Alfonso Barnuevo, said this week that his country is a “trustworthy
friend” and a “trustworthy cooperating partner” to Namibia. He made these
remarks when the embassy marked Spain’s Independence Day. “Namibia is a young
country; just 18 years have passed since Namibia’s independence. But may I add,
it is also a country that had [...]

Fifteen
copies of the recent publication, “Heritage and Cultures in Modern Namibia –
In-depth Views of the Country”, were this week donated to the National Archives
and the National Library of Namibia. The handover ceremony was held in the
TUCSIN Resource Centre at its Main Campus. On hand to receive the copies were
Margaret Ndala, the Education Officer for School [...]

The University
of Namibia’s (UNAM) Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences (FMHS) has received
equipment worth N$160,000 from the International Training and Educational Centre
for HIV/AIDS (I-TECH). The equipment includes desktop computers, printers,
uninterruptible power suppliers (UPS), laptops, liquid crystal display (LCD)
projectors, screens, a refrigerator and a workstation. The US government funds
I-TECH. It focuses more on health services, with [...]

Sweltering heat under a searing sun could not diminish
the enthusiasim of the new group of Peace Corps Volunteers when they took their
oath of service earlier this week. US Peace Corps volunteers flanked by US.
Ambassador to Namibia, Dennise Mathieu (left), and Peace Corps country director,
Hannah Baldwin (right), when the new volunteers were sworn in earlier this [...]