OPUWO: The National Youth Council (NYC) in the Kunene Region will launch the Credit for Youth in Business (CYB) programme in the Kunene and Omusati regions next month.
It is aimed at supporting youths who are involved in business activities – those without adequate collateral – to encourage them in their efforts to access loans from the mainstream banking sector in order to expand their businesses and create additional employment opportunities to address poverty.
Mogale Karimbue, the Kunene regional coordinator for the NYC, told Nampa in an interview yesterday that the launch of the CYB will take place on 25 August in Khorixas, during the first-ever Kunene Regional Youth Enterprise Expo.
He said N.dollars 750 000 was donated by the Namibia Port Authority (Namport) in April this year towards the CYB in both regions.
He said the donation will be used over a period of four years – 2012 to 2016.
Karimbue invited the youths of the two regions to start contacting the offices of the NYC to be advised on how to apply for the loans.
2 (South Africa; ) – The City of Johannesburg is looking into adding speakers to accompany the 237 CCTV cameras in the CBD, the Saturday Star reported.
According to the newspaper, the city believed this would alleviate crime as they would now be able to not only see but also warn off would-be criminals before they commit their crimes.
The speakers would also be used to rebuke those who littered and urinated on the city streets.
Regional commander of Joburg CCTV, Richard Witte told the newspaper that several cameras already had the speakers installed.
The system could possibly be presented to the council in the next few months.
(edited)HERE IS TODAY’S BULLETIN FOR 13H00 SATURDAY, 21 JULY 2012 NAMIBIA PRESS AGENCY
1 (OPUWO) – The National Youth Council (NYC) in the Kunene Region will launch the Credit for Youth in Business (CYB) programme in the Kunene and Omusati regions next month.
It is aimed at supporting youths who are involved in business activities – those without adequate collateral – to encourage them in their efforts to access loans from the mainstream banking sector in order to expand their businesses and create additional employment opportunities to address poverty.
Mogale Karimbue, the Kunene regional coordinator for the NYC, told Nampa in an interview yesterday that the launch of the CYB will take place on 25 August in Khorixas, during the first-ever Kunene Regional Youth Enterprise Expo.
He said N.dollars 750 000 was donated by the Namibia Port Authority (Namport) in April this year towards the CYB in both regions.
He said the donation will be used over a period of four years – 2012 to 2016.
Karimbue invited the youths of the two regions to start contacting the offices of the NYC to be advised on how to apply for the loans.
2 (South Africa) – The City of Johannesburg is looking into adding speakers to accompany the 237 CCTV cameras in the CBD, the Saturday Star reported.
According to the newspaper, the city believed this would alleviate crime as they would now be able to not only see but also warn off would-be criminals before they commit their crimes.
The speakers would also be used to rebuke those who littered and urinated on the city streets.
Regional commander of Joburg CCTV, Richard Witte told the newspaper that several cameras already had the speakers installed.
The system could possibly be presented to the council in the next few months.
3 (KHARTOUM/JUBA) – South Sudan today accused Sudan of launching an aerial bombardment on its side of their disputed border, but the Sudanese army denied the charge.
The two countries came close to all-out war in April following border clashes, the worst violence since South Sudan seceded and declared its independence from Khartoum a year ago under a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of civil war.
South Sudanese military spokesman Philip Aguer said Sudanese war planes had bombed the area of Rumaker in the Northern Bahr al Ghazal border state yesterday morning.
Sudan’s army spokesman al-Sawarmi Khalid denied that its air force had carried out any such attack.
Claims of attacks are hard to verify due to a lack of access to the remote border zone although Reuters reporters have witnessed several bombings on southern territory.
4 (CAIRO) – An Egyptian court has sentenced a former ultraconservative lawmaker to 18 months in jail on charges of violating public decency and contempt of police.
Police officers say Ali Wanees, who is also a religious cleric, was in a parked vehicle along an agricultural road at night last month.
The officers say they approached the car and saw a woman in a full face veil sitting on top of Wanees, who was touching and caressing her.
The woman with him has been under arrest for about a month, and was ordered to six months in jail today.
The charges are especially embarrassing for Salafis, who advocate a strict segregation of unrelated men and women.