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Land reform can help people out of poverty – Kameeta
March 30th, 2015 | by New Era Staff Reporter
WINDHOEK – Minister of Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare Bishop Zephania Kameeta has said government, under the Ministry of Land Reform, would have to go back to the drawing board and hold constructive national dialogue to review achievements and challenges regarding the land question.
Kameeta was speaking in the capital on Wednesday at the launch of a film by Thorsten Schutte that touches on the key aspects of access to quality education, health services, the land question, labour matters and various social grants and initiatives that government has initiated to assist the most marginalised in the society.
A New Flame Has Come
On Saturday, 21 March 2015, President Hage Geingob was officially sworn in at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek in what was a festive and joyous occasion witnessed by thousands.
On a day that threatened rain throughout, the ominous dark clouds did not discourage many Windhoek residents from making their way to the stadium for the swearing-in ceremony and the 25th Independence anniversary festivities that ran until the evening.
VIP guests present at the ceremony included Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Angola's Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Botswana's Ian Khama, SA Vice President Cyril Ramaphosa and former President Thabo Mbeki, amongst other luminaries, as well as an assemblage of incoming and outgoing Namibian Cabinet and parliamentary members and heads of political parties.
The message of President Geingob's first presidential address to the Namibian nation was one of fighting poverty and inequality.
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Prof. Peter H. Katjavivi, ehemaliger Botschafter Namibias in Deutschland, wird Parlamentspräsident
Prof Peter Katjavivi (left) was elected Speaker of the National Assembly at the swearing-in ceremony of Namibia's sixth Parliament. Loide Kasingo was nominated unopposed as his deputy. Katjavivi said, "we'll hit the ground running," before adjourning the House until 31 March. Swapo's chief whip will be Evelyn Nawases-Tayele. She succeeds Katjavivi who replaced Theo-Ben Gurirab (right). source: The Namibian
New Era, 20/03/2015, WINDHOEK – Incoming President Dr Hage Geingob yesterday announced government's new structure comprising new ministries, while he also announced the names of members of the new Cabinet to serve under his administration.
He had last week announced Dr Nickey Iyambo as the Vice-President, Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila as the new Prime Minister and Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as the Deputy Prime Minister.
Nandi-Ndaitwah will also head the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation.
The other newly renamed or created ministries are the Ministry of State Owned Enterprises, the Ministry of Poverty Alleviation, the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, the Ministry of Higher Education, Training and Innovation, the Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development, the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development, Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Job Creation, Ministry of Land Reform and the Ministry of Sport, National Services and Youth.
The Ministry of Veterans Affairs has been reduced to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The department will be headed by a deputy minister and will be based in the presidency.
Tom Alweendo will be the Minister in the Presidency responsible for National Planning.
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PRESS STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT ELECT DR. HAGE G. GEINGOB
DATE: MARCH 11, 2015
Let me thank all of you for coming to attend this press conference today. This is the second in a series of three press conferences following the first one which took place on February 2, 2015. As I had announced in January this year, I will hold three press conferences in order to keep the nation abreast of my plans regarding the setting up of the next Government of the Republic of...Continue Reading
Geingob's team takes shape
By Staff Reporter
NEW BROOMS ... Some of Hage Geingob's new Cabinet. Dr Nickey Iyambo (right sitting) will be Namibia's first Vice President. Finance minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila (sitting next to him) will make history as Namibia's first female PM.
At a press conference this morning at Parliament, Prime Minister and President-elect Hage Geingob announced some of the members of his executive team that will be sworn in on 21 March.
Geingob announced that Dr Nickey Iyambo will be Namibia's first Vice President. Finance minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila will make history as Namibia's first female Prime Minister and foreign affairs minister, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, will be her deputy.
Geingob said Kuugongelwa-Amadhila is "a dynamic implementer".
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