WINDHOEK: President Hifikepunye Pohamba yesterday appointed Anna Namakao Mutelo as Namibia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ethiopia and the African Union (AU). Mutelo is a long-serving staff member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, having joined the ministry in 1990.

Speaking at the commissioning ceremony at State House, Pohamba said Mutelo has served as a Namibian diplomat in various capacities prior to this latest assignment. ‘Throughout this time, she distinguished herself as a committed diplomat in the promotion of Namibia’s interests abroad,’ the President said.

Pohamba said he is confident that Mutelo will acquit herself well in her new assignment as Ambassador to Ethiopia.

2 (WINDHOEK) – NamWater has announced that the water supply at Otjituuo and Elandspan will be interrupted on 31 July and 01 August. The interruption is necessitated by urgent work that needs to be performed on the Otjituuo pump station – the station which supplies these schemes with water, NamWater spokesperson Tommi Numbala said in a media statement issued here yesterday.

‘It is envisaged that the work will take approximately 24 hours, commencing at 07h00 on 31 July and ending at 07h00 on 01 August,’ he said. Numbala said NamWater will however endeavour to complete the work in less than the nvisaged time.
3 (SOUTH AFRICA) – Thousands of burnt textbooks have been found in a warehouse in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape, the DA said yesterday.

Democratic Alliance provincial education spokesman Edmund van Vuuren said in a statement they have written to MEC Mandla Makupula ;demanding an explanation as to how valuable public resources for Eastern Cape children were allowed to be destroyed in this irresponsible way.’

However, provincial education department spokesman Loyiso Pulumani said the books found in Fort Beaufort were destroyed during an arson attack.

The books were from the old Cape College of Education, which was closed in 1996, and had no relevance to current textbooks, Pulumani said.

Like Limpopo, the Eastern Cape has also been plagued by textbook problems.
4 (ZANZIBAR) – Zanzibari authorities said yesterday the number of bodies recovered after a ferry sank last week had risen to 78, with at least 66 others still missing, as a minister resigned over the tragedy.

At least 145 of the 290 passengers on the MV Skagit were rescued when it sank on Wednesday in choppy waters as it crossed from mainland Tanzania to the island of Zanzibar, said the Indian Ocean archipelagos’ Vice President, Seif Ali Idi.

Police said last week that there is no hope of the missing passengers being found alive, raising the prospect that as many as 144 passengers may have died.

‘So far, 78 bodies have been found from the disaster,’ Idi told reporters, adding that two Western tourists were believed to have died, with one unidentified body in the morgue, and another missing feared dead.

Zanzibar Police commissioner Musa Ali Musa said that three men, including boat owner Saidi Abdulrahman, captain Mussa Makame and another official from the boat company, were being questioned by police.

5 (VICTORIA) – Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina arruved on a remote Seychelles island yesterday ahead of a meeting with the man he ousted in 2009, at crunch talks brokered by the regional bloc.

Rajoelina arrived on Desroches Island for talks aimed at breaking the deadlock in efforts to end Madagascar’s protracted political crisis.

His rival Marc Ravalomanana is expected today, a Seychelles government source told AFP, and the 15-member Southern African Development Community (SADC), chaired by South Africa President Jacob Zuma, will bring the two men face-to-face on Wednesday.

The rare meeting will come on the heels of what the army said was an attempted mutiny.

The defence minister said three people, including the corporal who led the mutiny, were killed in a raid near the capital on Sunday.
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TUESDAY, 24 JULY 2012
NAMIBIA PRESS AGENCY

1 (WINDHOEK) – President Hifikepunye Pohamba yesterday appointed Anna Namakao Mutelo as Namibia’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ethiopia and the African Union (AU).

Mutelo is a long-serving staff member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, having joined the ministry in 1990.

Speaking at the commissioning ceremony at State House, Pohamba said Mutelo has served as a Namibian diplomat in various capacities prior to this latest assignment.‘Throughout this time, she distinguished herself as a committed diplomat in the promotion of Namibia’s interests abroad,’ the President said.

Pohamba said he is confident that Mutelo will acquit herself well in her new assignment as Ambassador to Ethiopia.

2 (WINDHOEK) – NamWater has announced that the water supply at Otjituuo and Elandspan will be interrupted on 31 July and 01 August. The interruption is necessitated by urgent work that needs to be performed on the Otjituuo pump station – the station which supplies these schemes with water, NamWater spokesperson Tommi Numbala said in a media statement issued here yesterday.

‘It is envisaged that the work will take approximately 24 hours, commencing at 07h00 on 31 July and ending at 07h00 on 01 August,’ he said. Numbala said NamWater will however endeavour to complete the work in less than the envisaged time.

3 (SOUTH AFRICA) – Thousands of burnt textbooks have been found in a warehouse in Fort Beaufort in the Eastern Cape, the DA said yesterday.Democratic Alliance provincial education spokesman Edmund van Vuuren said in a statement they have written to MEC Mandla Makupula ;demanding an explanation as to how valuable public resources for Eastern Cape children were allowed to be destroyed in this irresponsible way.’

However, provincial education department spokesman Loyiso Pulumani said the books found in Fort Beaufort were destroyed during an arson attack. The books were from the old Cape College of Education, which was closed in 1996, and had no relevance to current textbooks, Pulumani said.

Like Limpopo, the Eastern Cape has also been plagued by textbook problems.

4 (ZANZIBAR) – Zanzibari authorities said yesterday the number of bodies recovered after a ferry sank last week had risen to 78, with at least 66 others still missing, as a minister resigned over the tragedy.

At least 145 of the 290 passengers on the MV Skagit were rescued when it sank on Wednesday in choppy waters as it crossed from mainland Tanzania to the island of Zanzibar, said the Indian Ocean archipelagos’ Vice President, Seif Ali Idi.

Police said last week that there is no hope of the missing passengers being found alive, raising the prospect that as many as 144 passengers may have died. ‘So far, 78 bodies have been found from the disaster,’ Idi told reporters, adding that two Western tourists were believed to have died, with one unidentified body in the morgue, and another missing feared dead.

Zanzibar Police commissioner Musa Ali Musa said that three men, including boat owner Saidi Abdulrahman, captain Mussa Makame and another official from the boat company, were being questioned by police.

5 (VICTORIA) – Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina arruved on a remote Seychelles island yesterday ahead of a meeting with the man he ousted in 2009, at crunch talks brokered by the regional bloc. Rajoelina arrived on Desroches Island for talks aimed at breaking the deadlock in efforts to end Madagascar’s protracted political crisis.

His rival Marc Ravalomanana is expected today, a Seychelles government source told, and the 15-member Southern African Development Community (SADC), chaired by South Africa President Jacob Zuma, will bring the two men face-to-face on Wednesday.

The rare meeting will come on the heels of what the army said was an attempted mutiny.

The defence minister said three people, including the corporal who led the mutiny, were killed in a raid near the capital on Sunday.