Category: Zambezi News

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…

By Simon Liseli THE Katima Mulilo Town Council and Windhoek City Council signed a memorandum of partnership and cooperation between the two councils on Tuesday in Katima Mulilo. The signing ceremony took place at Katima Mulilo council boardroom between the mayor of the City of Windhoek his worship Muesee Kazapua and her worship mayor of…

By Simon Liseli ALMOST seven months now the Department of Water Environment in Katima Mulilo is without water, which makes it difficult to operate efficiently. Close to nine thousand Namibian dollars is owed to the Katima Mulilo Town Council, the water bill has reckoned the amount of Eight Thousand Nine Hundred and One dollar Five…

By Risco Lumamezi THE ongoing cutting down of timber by a Chinese company at the proposed green scheme farm of Katima at Chantuwu in Liselo area north-west of Katima Mulilo is raising concerns to residents of the region. In an interview with the Spokesperson of Liselo Sub-Khuta and Traditional Induna Mr.Lennox Kalima Lutambo of the…

By Simon Liseli ZAMBEZI Regional Governor Lawrence Sampofu, has lashed out on the Caprivi Concerned Group (CCG)’s claims that they were denied to conduct their public meeting in Ngweze Community Hall that was booked on June 11, 2017. The group claims that the regional governor sent an official from his office to tell the police…

By Simon Liseli                    A-multi-million dollar government funded project, Zambezi Waterfront Tourism Park (ZWTP) at Katima Mulilo is currently in a dysfunctional state while workers and residents of the region have raised eyebrows on its poor operations. About N$ 350-million was injected by the ministry of finance as the initiator of the project idea, mooted in…

By Simon Liseli ASSISTANT Technical Officer in the Department of Water Environment in Zambezi Region, Mr. Reinhold Shindondola has expressed concerns over maintenance payments made every month to his two-year-old daughter. He therefore asks lawmakers to repeal maintenance laws and make more investigations to see how recipient mothers use money. Mr. Shindondola, a former inmate…