THE Clever Cubs School is a brand new school for 24 San children that opened this month on the N/a' an ku se Wildlife Sanctuary outside Windhoek.

IN one of the few political debates to have taken place in the run-up to elections next week, 11 of Namibia's 13 political parties on Monday discussed poverty and inequality.

LOCAL golf administrators have received an earful from their main sponsor, MTC, which has demanded to see real transformation taking place in the code.

THE Frank Fredericks Foundation (FFF) once again announced several scholarships worth thousands of dollars and brand-new sports equipment to athletes and schools in Namibia.

A BITTER dispute between the widow and the former lawyer of the late German extradition target Hans Jurgen Koch made a return to the High Court this week, with Koch's widow scoring a courtroom win against her late husband's former attorney.

THE names of the three people who were killed when a plane crashed after take-off from Windhoek's Eros Airport on Sunday were released by the Namibian Police yesterday.

ABOUT 132 Namibians who are below the voting age of 18 years have registered as voters and received their cards while some 103 voters registered twice and 12 voters, among them Tobie Aupindi, Managing Director of Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR), registered after the cut-off date, which was September 30.

MTC says it has been forced to spend more than N$1 million on replacing stolen and vandalised solar panels.

Opperman Aids Orphan Trust's 8th fundraising gala dinner was held earlier this week at the Safari Court Conference Centre with the theme "Our beautiful children, our beautiful country".

Oceana, the fishing company with operations in Namibia and South Africa said this week that headline earning per share went up by 18% in the year ended 30 September.

Namibia Dairies and the Namibia Farmworkers' Union (NAFWU) have signed a wage agreement through which workers at the Mariental-based SuperFarm will receive 13th cheques coupled with a productivity bonus and flexible working hours.

After 26 years of swimming coaching, the country's first and only coach from a Namibia Swimming Union (NASU) affiliated club is finally taking off the flippers.

As much as the current debate concerns inflation or deflation, a similar debate is slowly emerging around interest rates.

Kraatz Marine has terminated the agreement it has signed with Max Planck Institute (MPI) to build and erect the largest telescope in Namibia called HESS. Kraatz Marine is part of the Ohlthaver and List Group of Companies, saying MPI has breached the contract.

Side corporate tournament as organisers have moved the kick-off to Friday, 20 November 2009 instead of the usual kick-off date which is in the early months of the next year.

Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, John Mutorwa said Namibia is encouraged that the World Food Summit that was held in Rome this week considered the improvement of food security governance as parts of its agenda.

Mobile phone company, Leo is sponsoring students from the Polytechnic of Namibia to attend a cultural exchange programme at Harvard College in Boston, Massachusetts.

Namibians are a week away from being afforded the opportunity to enjoy Grammy Award quality latino jazz piano music closer to home. .This will happen on 27 November when Grammy Award winning Cuban pianist Omar Sosa performs live at the National Theatre of Namibia.

TWO men have been murdered in Windhoek in the last few days.

INADEQUATE access to power is the single largest stumbling block in Africa's economic development, with the cost of blackouts easily rising between one to two per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), the World Bank said yesterday.