The Aids Programme of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia (ELCAP) donated school fees and uniforms worth N$15 000 to orphans and other vulnerable children in the Rehoboth area on Monday. The beneficiaries were identified through ELCAP's home-based care programmes.

The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has given Namibia 113 US million dollars over five years in what could prove to be a turning point in the country's campaign to fight the three diseases, analysts say.

President Sam Nujoma has expressed dismay over corruption in some State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) in which some individuals are enriching themselves with funds that are meant for improving living standards of the Namibian people.

A new report from Minority Rights Group International (MRG) expresses serious concern over the treatment of minority communities in Namibia who remain disadvantaged, marginalized and at risk in a country of extreme disparities in wealth, high unemployment and dangerous levels of rural poverty. MRG's report highlights the detrimental affects of development policies which fail to consult minority groups or consider the impact on their lives and means of livelihood.

The Namibian government is investigating incidents of looting of relief food in recent weeks. The Namibian newspaper has reported that large quantities of maize meal, cooking oil and other commodities meant for drought relief had been looted in the Kavango and Ohangwena Regions, in the north and north-western parts of the country.

What has the impact of recent advances in technology and movements towards trade liberalization been in Namibia? This paper attempts to extend the debate on globalisation and labour markets to Namibia, as the authors suggest the current debate lacks theoretical and empirical rigour.

Redistributive land reform in Namibia is widely regarded as a precondition for sustainable rural development and poverty alleviation. This document briefly discusses the development of thinking on land reform and the development of land reform models prior to Independence. It refers to progress on land redistribution since 1990 and discusses some of the problems experienced.

Redistributive land reform in Namibia is widely regarded as a precondition for sustainable rural development and poverty alleviation. This paper briefly discusses the development of thinking on land reform and the development of land reform models prior to Independence. It refers to progress on land redistribution since 1990 and discusses some of the problems experienced, concluding that land reform in Namibia has progressed at a very slow pace.

Former Prime Minister Hage Geingob and Prisons Minister Andimba Toivo ya Toivo received gifts bought through the unauthorised use of a credit card issued to a manager at the Social Security Commission, it was alleged this week. The information surfaced at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Activities, Management and Operations of the SSC.

No action has been taken to remove a dozen drums of highly toxic calcium cyanide, which have been discovered at an abandoned mine, in the Namib Desert outside Swakopmund in October last year.

Namibians will have to pay a special 'orphan tax' from April next year because of the severe orphan crisis facing the country, Cabinet has announced.

Namibia's biggest trade union federation has accused the government of contributing to the flight of qualified nurses and teachers to overseas countries. The union says poor government salaries do not encourage professionals to stay in the country.

About 200 teachers in Namibia quit the profession this year alone citing poor salaries and overall deteriorating conditions of service in education, the Teachers' Union of Namibia says.

Namibians in Windhoek marked Human Rights and Namibian Women's Day with two separate commemorations - one Government-sanctioned and the other organised by civil society.

Namibian human rights activists on Wednesday called for the immediate release of 78 Angolans at Dordabis prison, saying their ongoing detention constituted a gross human rights violation.

Eighteen-year-old Mathias Walubita has just returned from writing his Grade 11 exams, but is already preparing for a weekend of hard work. He has to change out of his school uniform into casual wear, before walking eight kilometres to the centre of Katima Mulilo, on an empty stomach. The centre is where he has a weekend job of loading trucks. Tall and shy, Mathias is one of the estimated 82 000 Aids orphans in Namibia.

The National Housing Enterprises (NHE) says it will go ahead with plans to evict pensioners who have not paid debts. Ten days ago over 250 senior citizens marched to the Prime Minister's Office to voice their grievances after they were threatened with eviction.

A group of women in northern Namibia have become "flying mothers" for children orphaned by Aids. They got together four years ago after losing relatives to the disease, or taking in nephews and nieces after their parents had died.

The number of children orphaned by HIV-AIDS in Windhoek is expected to escalate to 30 000 over the next 10 years from the current estimate of 6 600, the Mayor of the City, Matheus Shikongo, said last Wednesday.

The Department of Rural Water Supply in the Ministry of Agriculture in Kunene North has received 2,2 million Namibian dollars from the government. The money will assist to alleviate drought conditions and to drill new boreholes.