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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 7128 FRIDAY 8 AUGUST 2025 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net
N$4.9 million CT Scanner for Walvis Bay State Hospital
inside Swakopmund Mayor Launches N$1 million Youth Empowerment Programme
Rudi Bowe
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Walvis Bay District Hospital recently received state-of-the-art Computed Tomography (CT) scan equipment worth N$4.9 million from Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine in China. Following the donation of a CT scanner residents in the Erongo region no longer be referred to Windhoek and do not
have to travel long distances or endure long waiting periods for diagnostic scans. CT scans are used by doctors to Continues on page 2
Gigantic Container Ship Anchored off WB
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(Fltr): Counsellor WEI Jinming, Representing the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China in Namibia, Penda Ithindi the Executive Director at the Ministry of Health and Social Service, Natalia Goagoses, Governor of Erongo Region, Florian Donatus, Chairperson of Erongo Regional Council and Prof. LIN Shengyou, vice president of Zheijiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine at the CT Scan machine at the Walvis Bay District Hospital
Cape Fur Seals Entanglements on Rise
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People Evicted from Rooi Kaart vir Fifty Private Land RedForce
Oil Refinery Renewable Energy Power Plant in Pipeline for Walvis Bay
Shacks belonging to a group of approximately 50 people who illegally occupied a privately owned plot since 2020 in Kuisebmond, Walvis Bay were demolished last week, after the landowner, obtained an eviction order from the High Court.
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Rudi Bowe
· Erongo Governor Describes Evictions as “Barbaric and Inhumane
Marshallino Beukes
Die Minister van Stedelike en Landelike Ontwikkeling, James Sankwasa het geen doekies omgedraai in 'n skrywe waarin hy dorpsrade en munisipaliteite wat van RedForce Debt Management CC se dienste gebruik maak beopdrag het om nie ooreenkomste met die skuldinvorderaars teen die vervaldatum te hernu nie. Sommige munisipaliteite en dorpsrade landwyd maak van die maatskappy se dienste gebruik om skuld namens hulle van inwoners en besighede in te vorder. Volgens die Minister se skrywe, gedateer 4 Augustus, het RedForce skuldinvorderaars “baie ekonomiese en politieke uitdagings en probleme veroorsaak vir burgers en inwoners in plaaslike owerhede wat van hul
dienste gebruik maak.” Munisipaliteite en dorpsrade wat nog nie ooreenkomste met RedForce aangegaan het nie, word deur Sankwasa versoek om dit nie te doen nie. RedForce word in verskeie dorpe deur inwoners beskuldig dat hulle blykbaar water en elektrisiteit sonder behoorlike kennisgewing afsny en buitensporige strawwe oplê.
A widely circulated video on social media of the demolition and eviction of illegal land occupants by the messenger of the court, sparked allegations and discrimination in the town. The group of squatters evicted from a privately owned plot alleged that they have been
seeking assistance from the municipality since 2020, but their plea has fallen on deaf. Others claim that illegal land occupants are receiving “special treatment” over those, on the official housing lists, who have been waiting for years. Political leaders in the harbour town have called on the squatters to
register their names and join the list at the municipality. The governor of the Erongo region, Nathalia Goagoses addressed the community members evicted from private land after receiving a petition from the Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL), deContinues on page 2
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