How old are you exactly?
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If you are getting older but you are not yet that old, a new book, launched last week by Wordweaver Publishers celebrates, is the roadmap you need to comprehend your current situation and to engage your near future.
A Beginner’s Guide to Ageing by Jean Fisher was officially launched at an informal event at the Hotel School in Windhoek. It is Wordweaver’s first title for the year.
The event kicked off with a Marumba Band and some dry sherry for all guests. Inside the theatre, the launch began with a contribution by Sandy Rudd about how she and Jean had met 30 years ago, and how much Jean Fischer has achieved since then.
Bryony van der Merwe, the fireball driving Wordweaver Publisher, spoke next about how honoured she was to be chosen to publish this esteemed work.
Funds for rural women
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Casting its social net across rural women, the Ambassador of Spain, Her Excellency, Carmen Díez Orejas, visited the Okahandja Town Council earlier this week to obtain first-hand information on the polices and measures employed by the town council to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Me Diez Orejas met the Okahandja Mayor, Cllr Dawid Uri-Khob, and together they visited some of the community projects supported by the Town Council. These organisations range from the more formalised Women Empowerment For Action to the very informal Ileni Tulikwafeni, founded by the people and for the people of the Vyfrand Camp, a notorious squatter camp sprawling just outside the town. The ambassador also visited the Enongelo Community Center dedicated to the youth.
The Spanish Cooperation, through the NEPAD/Spanish Fund for African Women Empowerment, is financing a project to empower women and to boost economic development. This project is being implemented by Gender Links, in 40 local councils in 6 Namibian regions.
It’s good bye from Anglo but not Au Revoir
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Mining conglomerate, Anglo American, through the Anglo American Namibia Foundation (AANF), committed an initial US$3 million in 2009 and a further US$3.5 million in 2010, to social investment projects, and then disinvested its interest in Skorpion Zinc in December 2010.
Yet, the Anglo American Namibia Foundation continues to act as a social investment vehicle for the company. Anglo American is still dual-listed on the Namibian Stock Exchange.
David Bentley, Chairperson of the Foundation notes that Anglo American’s continued Corporate Social Investment (CSI) efforts in Namibia are linked to its overall Group philosophy.
“Anglo American firmly believes in responsible stewardship throughout the mining lifecycle, from exploration through to operation, and finally to closure or in some instances, divestment. The work that the Foundation has completed in the form of development projects will ultimately ensure that previous host communities will continue to socially and materially develop for the better, despite the fact that our company no longer operates there.”
Oranjemund community radio goes live
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The new Oranjemund Community Radio Station was officially launched at a fundraising event in Oranjemund last week.
The launch was sponsored by Namdeb Diamond Corporation and invited guests included amongst others, the CEO of the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN), Mr Stanley Shanapinda and the Mayor of Oranjemund, the Honourable Henry Coetzee.
The Oranjemund Community Radio Project was commissioned in 2011 and CRAN approved the licence in December 2012. To date Namdeb has invested approximately N$400,000 for infrastructure for the radio station. The radio initiative will support the community’s objective of growing and sustaining the town of Oranjemund beyond diamond mining. The radio station also provides a solution to enhanced information sharing and empowers the general community to have their voices heard as it is a dialogue platform.
Oompah oomph
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Members of the St Mark African Episcopal Church welcomed Mrs. Martina Hückmann and German Ambassador, HE Onno Hückmann in Gibeon earlier this year to receive a gift of several musical instruments. Chairman of the church board, Mr. DT Fleermuys hosted the ambassador and his wife. The donation consists of of six trumpets, two bass tubas, two French horns, one complete drum kit, a loudspeaker system and a keyboard at a value of about Eur8000. The musical instruments were handed over by Ambassador Hückmann during a special “Dedication Ceremony”to the chairperson of the church board, Mr. D.T. Fleermuys. The Gibeon Brass Band was established in the 1950s by late Reverend Markus Witbooi (1885-1969).
