Category: Caprivi News

By Simon Liseli THE Katima Mulilo Town Council (KMTC) has kicked off its week-long strategic plan and engagement workshop to design its strategic direction for the next five year period, 2018 – 2022 on Monday in Katima Mulilo. Delivering her keynote address speech during the opening of the workshop , Katima Mulilo Mayor Georgina Mwiya-Simataa…

By Risco Lumamezi SPOKESPERSON of Zambezi Business People’s Forum (ZBPF), Mr. George Simataa has called on government to intervene on the Katima Mulilo Town Council’s demolishing saga of illegal settlers of the urban land in Kaima Mulilo as a matter of urgency. He told reporters at a press conference on Monday that most of the…

By Simon Liseli NAMIBIA’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah addressed hundreds of the Mafwe subjects during the annual gathering of the Lusata cultural festival on Sunday and urged them to follow suit and use culture and tradition for unity. Hon. Nandi-Ndaitwah told Chief George Simasiku Mamili and his…

By Simon Liseli at Chinchimane IN the wake of annual Lusata cultural festival of 2017 , Prince Dr.Akashambatwa Mbikusita-Lewanika of Barotseland of the Western Zambia made a clarion call on Sunday how the Mafwe people came to be who they are today and their chieftainship from Barotseland Royal house. Dr. Akashambatwa confessed that he spend…

By Simon Liseli ABOUT 18 ‘ghost’ teachers and two former senior accountants of the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture who were nabbed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in the Zambezi Region on Monday and Tuesday, made their first brief appearance before the Katima Mulilo District Court Magistrate Ms. Nomusa Sibanda on Wednesday. Eighteen (18)…

By Simon Liseli at Choi ZAMBEZI Regional Governor Lawrence Alfea Sampofu has strongly commended traditional chiefs for staying united and focusing on development in the region. Governor Sampofu praised traditional leaders for the unity they display to their followers as they visit each other and sit together shoulder to shoulder. According to him that is…

By Simon Liseli A GROUP of organized concerned Caprivians under the armpit of the Caprivi Concerned Group (CCG), staged a peaceful demonstration on the streets of Katima Mulilo with chanting songs and banners of the “independent Caprivi Strip”, while handing over a petition to Zambezi Regional Governor Lawrence Sampofu’s Special Advisor Ignatius Nkunga calling on…

By Simon Liseli A-two-year old mud brick making project that was launched in Katima Mulilo in 2015, to serve as an alternative in mitigating the escalating price increase of cement and deforestation in Zambezi region is in progress. The project is an initiative by a 31-year-old unemployed young man of Katima Mulilo who borrowed the…