The Namdeb diamond corporation has been described
as a national asset. ?It is Namibia’s most important economic asset,? said Dr
Nickey Iyambo, Minister of Mines and Energy this week.He said it was for this
reason that the government has found it appropriate that it should have a
shareholding in Namdeb.Iyambo was speaking when he opened a Village of Learning
on [...]

Namdeb prides itself on treating its employees as
it treats the precious stones, the diamonds it mines. Hence a strategy dubbed
‘human gems’ has been implemented. Under this strategy, the company focus on
developing the employees to ensure that Namdeb has a workforce aligned to the
company’s overall strategic goals.Just as the employees are provided with
training, HIV/AIDS infected employees [...]

The Ministry of Health and Social Services expects to have an accurate
picture of the prevalence of HIV/AIDS for 2004 within the next month after the
results of a survey are finalised by the ministry. The results come from a 2004
sentinel survey conducted in various sentinel sites in each of the country’s 13
regions. The survey is conducted [...]

Workplaces are
regarded as strategic places to provide information to sexually active men and
women and can therefore be used to educate workers on prevention and treatment
of HIV/AIDS. This is said in a press statement released during the workplace
symposium hosted by the Southern African HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination
Service (SAfAIDS) and the Namibia Network of AIDS Service Organisations
(Nanaso).The statement [...]

Nanaso aims to ?facilitate the sharing of information,
ideas, experience and resources in AIDS related work between NGO’s within the
country and to co-ordinate and enforce integration of common AIDS related and
function undertaken by NGO’s and other agencies in Namibia?. The Namibia Network
of AIDS Services Organisations (Nanaso) is an umbrella national welfare body of
HIV/AIDS non-governmental organisations. It [...]

There was some good
news about the fight against HIV/AIDS this week when the government announced
that between 2002 and 2004 the national HIV prevalence rate for Namibia had
declined for the first time since the beginning of the epidemic.The Ministry of
Health and Social Services said in its 2004 HIV/AIDS Sentinel Sero Survey
results that data demonstrate either a [...]

The current global
economic crisis has presented an opportunity where more countries will become
dominant players, central bank governor Tom Alweendo said.?Africa is not likely
to become a dominant player, except if we take another look at what we have been
doing so far and change quickly. That change will require us to think out of the
proverbial box. It [...]

This Friday the world will put
time aside to take stock of developments made with respect to the upholding of
the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Friday, 10 December, is the day
on which nations adopted the declaration precisely 56 years ago.This year’s
celebration is dedicated to human rights education.World leaders will meet in
the UN General Assembly to [...]

UNICEF Namibia this week
launched its annual 2005 State of the World?s Children Report in Lüderitz under
the title ?Childhood under Threat?. Along with the report, UNICEF Namibia will
also prepare a Namibia-specific supplementary status handout focussing mainly on
the national issues relevant to the report.The international launch will took
place on 9 December, 2004 in LondonThe report states that [...]

Tsotsi is a film of psychological drama in which
the protagonist is compelled to confront his own brutal nature and face the
consequences of his actions.This film centres on the life of a young
Johannesburg township gang leader, named Tsotsi, who was a HIV/Aids orphan and
grew up on the streets amid poverty, violence and crime.This film is based [...]