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Archive for April, 2009
1st April

LÜDERITZ SECONDARY SCHOOL TAKES THE STAGE

Students and Lüderitz High School have dived into rehearsals for a production of The Lion King following demands that Lüderitz does not offer enough to the town youth. Being in a play encompasses many things; determination, creativity, dedication and confidence in yourself. It is lucky then that the group of learners from LSS who have [...]

1st April

LESSONS ON LIFE

By Ndafa
There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in [...]

1st April

EDUCATION FOR YOUTH: IS THERE ROOM FOR THE GIRL CHILD?

JAN SCHOLTZ: REVEREND, TEACHER AND YOUTH WORKER
Among the various categories of youth one of the most prominent, yet relatively unknown, in that of the girl child. In most Government designed youth policies in Africa, the girl child is rarely addressed as a special target
group. The apparent absence of discussion of the circumstance of female youths [...]

1st April

ANGLO-SKORPION FOUNDATION SUPPORTS PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IN BIG WAY

Skorpion Zinc Mine through the Anglo-Skorpion Foundation has contributed 600-thousand Namibia dollars to a programme to develop school principals in the Karas Region. The Faculty of Education of the University of Johannesburg is actively involved with the development of school principals in Namibia, through the delivery
participants from the Erongoof an ACE-qualification in School Management and [...]

1st April

SHOWS IN THE SOUTH

Show season has started in Namibia following the holding of the Rosh Pinah Expo 2009 and the Luderitz SME Expo 2009, earlier this month. The exposition in Rosh Pinah is a stand-alone event held for the third year in a row, while the one in Luderitz formed part of the annual Crayfish Festival, first held [...]

1st April

CAFO DONATES TOWARDS EXAM FEES

Thursday, 02 April, was a moving day for the Luderitz Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) as the Luderitz Church Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) Committee carried out yet another event in their favour. This time around, the committee donated an impressive N$17554 towards the exam fees and school development fund for 65 learners from the Luderitz [...]

1st April

GOOD CLEAN FUN

To a pair of English ears the phrase ‘High School Fun Day’ bring to mind unpleasant images of vomited sweets, petty vandalism and open scorn from the majority of the student body. However to the ears of a Namibian the words mean something quite different; a Saturday of good honest fun at Lüderitz Secondary School. [...]