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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6972 FRIDAY 8 JULY 2022 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net

Welwitchia breaks ground for its 2nd campus in Erongo Sharlien Tjambari

Welwitchia Health Training Centre had the groundbreaking ceremony of the Welwitchia School of Engineering, Logistics, Marine and Health Science, last week Friday, 1 July. This state-of-the-art campus will be the second campus in the Erongo region, following the Walvis Bay campus. Professor Scholastika Iipinge from Welwitchia Health Training Centre (WHTC) said Welwitchia Health Training Centre is here to respond to the needs of the Swakopmund community and students, who have been travelling to Windhoek and other regions for years seeking Higher Education. This campus will make it possible for the students to have a chance to study in various Continues on page 2

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Erongo Tourism Forum Established

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Murder suspect makes first court appearance

Residents and businesses Equiano internet cable Page 4 lands at Namibian coast Trustco in debt Rudi Bowe closes Walvis Bay residents and businesses owe the council a total of N$352 million in unpaid municipal services. satellite This was revealed by the General Finance Manager of the Walvis Bay municipality, Frans Gonteb at a public engagement session hosted by the Walvis Bay Municipal Council on 23 June. office According Gonteb, the biggest amount of this money is owed by the residents, with an estimate of about 60% that includes sanitary levies, vacant and undeveloped land. The debts owed by residents and businesses to the municipality, hampers council to finance large projects, especially land development projects. A breakdown provided by councilor Leroy Victor, showed the total debt in February 2022 stood at N$345 million and is still growing. The amounts owed by residents and businesses within the suburbs of the harbour town are: Walvis Bay town area N$153 million; Meersig N$16 million; Narraville N$28 million; Kuisebmond N$101 million; Tutaleni N$14 million; Langstrand N$9 million and Dolphin Beach N$21 million. Earlier this year Walvis Bay council approved a resolution to write off N$60.7 million of the debt owed by pensioners and customers. The monetary value of the write-off includes all outstanding debts of N$6.7 million of registered pensioners, as well as N$54 million on all outstanding interest on residential property improvements from the date when the interest started to accumulate up to the end of February 2022. A total of 102 369 customers and 1 026 pensioners benefit from written-off debts.

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Sharlien Tjambari

The Equiano subsea internet cable landed at the Namibian coast in Swakopmund last Friday, 1 July.

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The Equiano subsea cable will provide communications diversity due to its increased capacity, and this will have a direct impact on connectivity with faster internet speeds, more flexibility in the market and an improved user experience for consumers in Namibia and beyond. The cable was pulled out of the ocean, near Platz Am Meer Shopping Mall in Vineta. The cable comes from Portugal, and will stretch along the Continues on page 2

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