A household in Oshikulufitu Village in the Anamulenge Constituency of the Omusati Region lost its newly harvested pearl millet granary on Wednesday after a neighbour’s child, who was playing with children from the affected household, accidentally set it on fire.
The fire destroyed the granary containing the fresh harvest, leaving the family without enough food for the season.
Alavina Nakale, head of the household, told NBC News that they lost quite a lot, and what remains won’t be enough to last until the next harvest season.
Nakale has appealed to good Samaritans for assistance with mahangu grains or any other support to help the household sustain itself until the next harvest season.
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Stock theft…Farmers from villages in the Oshana region gathered at the Oshakati Magistrate’s Court this afternoon during the sentencing of two stock theft suspects, demanding that the accused not be granted bail but remain in custody.
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That tweet is probably projected pain - crying out loud to a deeper pain.
We go to about 5/6 years ago (2019/2020), she tweeted about how her mother takes care of so many kids which aren't hers but just unfortunate kids whose parents can't afford to take care of them. We underestimate what that does to the person's biological children and how much it takes away from them.
Watch her content at the village and there's always many kids there,which she spoke kindly with and to a great extent, with love. I do not expect such a person to author anti-conception tweets, so I would (nonchalantly) analyse the possible psychology that I can think of surrounding the situation.
Have your mother raise hundreds of kids made by irresponsible people who can't take care of them by themselves. You'd have that dormant anger and frustration about conception, which will leak out here and there, sometimes without noticing. It shifts your perspective about having children and becomes almost a trauma. The idea of having a child will trigger you because all you'll remember is your good-hearted mother who is burdened by kids she didn't make.
Your mother can't live a life you think she deserves, because every possible penny goes into food for the team - which is number 2 need on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. More pain is that the money you send her, for herself, is also spent in a way you feel deep down is unfair. Those children also become your responsibility.
It doesn't matter whether she's at the village and you're in town. She's living with that burden on a daily basis and she hotspots it to you everyday when you speak to her. You are kind of also dragged in this burden because you can't detach from your mother. Whenever you speak to her, you hear those responsibilities in the background. Whenever you want to see her, you have to make peace with seeing them too. It's like dating somebody with many many kids.
It gets tricky when you wanna have a child, and you think about your mother wanting to be with her grandchild. You can't take care of your kid the way you'd wish to, as that means you have to either discriminate and have your child enjoy things the other kids don't have, or buy for all the 10 kids in your mother's care, or let your kid not have fancy things and eat fancy food and just be like the rest of the crew. All those choices are undesirable.
That can be damaging to somebody. At times, there's nowhere to release that background anger since these are just innocent kids. The normalization of burdening people with responsibilities that aren't theirs especially when it comes to taking care of children they didn't make is also very common, which leads to our parents suffering and sacrificing their lives to take care of children made by whoever.
Social media has become the only place since I can't say it in my mother's face. Sometimes such can come out through shade or other ways. That doesn't mean the person hates kids. They can actually love kids but hate the idea of making kids you can't afford to take care of.
That tweet to me, just like the 2019/2020 tweet, is leaking pain. It's a valid projection, but we're more damaged today as a society. Wherever you express yourself nowadays, you're rubbing on somebody's fresh wound.
@MwahafarN I knew Shikongo was incompetent the moment I saw that he sits in an office next to a complex where police officers who resides in the complex hangs their underwear at windows.
They can afford it. Refer to the thousands of land applications rotting at Property Offices of LAs. They're just sidelined and land given to developers who are giving cuts to councilors and administrators. If they can't afford vacant land, how are they affording it when there's a structure built on that land by developers?
It's not the individual's job to do those things. It's the bank that's giving the loan that does that. That's how it operates currently when you have a plot - the Contractor is vetted by the bank and they (bank) monitor the construction and certify the progress payments until the 100% (happy letter) completion stage.
The market value will bru, believe me. What you're talking about is the market price. 2 different things. I think N$1.2 million in Eenhana is okay. The demand must pronounce itself accordingly. What I'm against is that our values North of Redline are suppressed by a cap regardless of the demand.
QUOTA PROTEST … Fishing industry workers and stakeholders marched to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform at Walvis Bay on Monday to submit a petition against the auctioning of fishing quotas. The group claims the system favours the highest bidders at the expense of local companies and threatens jobs. Protesters argue that the lack of predictable quota allocation prevents companies from offering permanent employment, leaving many workers on long-term fixed contracts. They are calling on the government to stop quota auctions, allocate quotas directly to established companies, and ensure workers are moved into permanent positions.
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