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Murangi, Woman of Excellence Staff Reporter
Mrs Elsa Murangi, coordinator of the Walvis Bay Child and Family Centre, has been named one of the Standard Bank’s Women of Excellence finalists. “I feel honoured to have won this prestigious award,” Mrs Murangi says. “It feels as if all the hard work has finally paid off. It is good advertisement for my centre to be awarded on such a scale.” In the spirit of Women’s month (August) winners of the award were announced at the crowning of Miss Namibia 2014 in Windhoek, on 2 August. Fifty/fifty representation of women in government is a good thing, Murangi continued. “If you empower women, you empower the nation,” she explained. Patricia Siska Nalisa from the Katima Mulilo Youth Center (joint category B), Ms Carol Tsitsi Semedo, manager at the Nampharm Foundation (category A), Christaline Vega-Biart of Katutura Soap Making Project and Sofia Sem of the Usakos Private Hostel were also awarded a Continues on page 2
Welkom terug Johanna! Johanna Benson het gisteraand huistoe gekom nadat sy ‘n brons medalje vir verspring by die 2014 Glasgow Statebondspele gewen het. Haar nuwe afrigter, Belinda O b e r h o l s e r, het ‘n verwelkomingspartytjie saam met vriende
en mede-atlete vir haar gereël by ‘n plaaslike hotel. “Dankie aan almal wat my ondersteun – al ken ek nie vir julle nie, maar julle weet van my. Baie baie dankie!,” het Johanna gesê. “Dankie vir my oefenmaat Charnè, tannie Ulla, dankie vir die hulp met die verspring tegniek en tannie ‘B’ dankie vir al jou aandag, het sy bygevoeg.
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Buurtwag op Langstrand
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Boat on Fire
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Winter bird count
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Nigerians to build salt refinery
Dekostar about Ondjila Oile
Jade McClune
Following the visit of the Nigerian President to Namibia in March, Cabinet recently approved the plan to construct a new salt refinery near Henties Bay. During the delivery of his Annual State of the Region address, the Governor of Erongo region, Mr Cleophas Mutjavikua announced last week that “in addition to the existing salt refineries, a new salt refinery had been approved by the Cabinet of the Republic
of Namibia to commence their business near Henties Bay.” Mutjavikua said the Nigerian authorities are keenly interested in exporting salt from Namibia and without going into much detail, said the process was delayed, because “the bureaucratic process took
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Medals for Team Namibia returns w Team Namibia
longer than anticipated.” Formal agreement between the two
countries has now been reached, with Cabinet recently putting its seal
of approval on the deal. Namibia currently HARD HITTER: Junias Jonas rocks his opponent has two major Staff reporter
Page 32 Continues on Namibia's page 2athletes returned with three medals from the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Para-athletes Johanna Benson and Lahja Ishitile both claimed bronze in the long jump and 100m res p e c t i v e l y, w h i l e Junias Jonas returned with a silver medal won in the 64kg light welter boxing. Beyond the three medal winners, Namibia impressed on seven fields of play over 11 competition days. R eg ar d i n g b o wl s , Namibia's pairs lawn bowls team was in with a shot at the podium with Douw Calitz and his partner, Will Esterhuizen. The pair beat Norfolk Islands, Jersey and Cook Islands in the group phase, only losing to Australia. In
the quarterfinal Namibia caused an upset, beating Australia 19:12, but then unfortunately lost the semifinal against Malaysia. In the playoff for bronze, England was the better team on the day, forcing Calitz/ Esterhuizen to settle for fourth place. Namibia's 'four team', 'triple team' and 'single player' missed out on a top two position in their respective groups which would have taken them from the group phase to the quarter final. For single player, Will Esterhuizen, this was by the slightest of margins, finishing on equal points with Zambia's Harry Musonda, but on a lower
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shot difference. In boxing, Junias Jonas was Namibia's top performer at the games winning silver in the light welter category. On the way to the final Jonas beat Amir Khan (PAK), Charles Lumbwe (ZAM), Leroy Hindley (NZL) and Sean Duffy (NRI). In the final Jonas put up an excellent fight against his opponent, local Scottish boy and Dehli 2010 silver medalist Josh Taylor. Taylor however was the better boxer on the day and claimed gold. Namibia's other boxers also impressed in their respective categories,
with Mujandjua Kasuto proceeding up to round 16 in the 75kg middle weight, Immanuel Shapaka eliminated in the round of 32 in the men's fly 52kg and Lazarus Shaningwa losing to New Zeeland's Chad Milnes in round 16 of the men's 60kg light weight category. Looking at cycling, in the mountain bike race Heiko Redecker finith shed a respectable 18 in the men's event with Vera Adrian ending the th ladies race in 16 position. Vera Adrian, participating in all three cycling races for Namibia, completed the time
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