ASTON Villa eased the pressure on under-fire boss Steven Gerrard with a 1-0 win over Southampton on Friday as the Premier League returned following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
SRI Lanka's Dushmantha Chameera and Lahiru Kumara will travel to Australia for the T20 World Cup in a squad largely unchanged from the island nation's surprise Asia Cup win, selectors said Friday.
THE United Arab Emirates did not qualify for the Qatar World Cup but it will be a winner anyway if an overspill of fans floods its hotels, restaurants and planes.
SEPTEMBER is suicide awareness and prevention month, and former Miss Namibia 2018 Selma Kamanya is sharing her thoughts on the topic on Instagram.
AWARD-WINNING musician and entrepreneur Monica 'Top Cheri' Pineas has taken it upon herself to help nurture young creative entrepreneurs by coming up with a Kiddies Concert and Play Day.
ORGANISERS of Burna Boy's 'Love, Damini' tour stop in Namibia have released the local line-up for the 25 September show, and music fans can prepare themselves for a night like no other.
THE Namibia Competition Commission (NaCC) has approved of Heineken buying out the O&L Group in NBL Investments, subject to seven conditions, including no retrenchments, and the establishment of a small businesses development fund, among others.
THE petroleum commissioner in the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Maggy Shino, says tens of billions of dollars in new investments are needed if the country is to move from being an oil discoverer to an oil producer.
SOME professions, like auto electrics and motor mechanics, have long been regarded as the preserve of men.
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NAMPOWER will dispatch a special task team, consisting of 30 technical experts in various fields, to the Calueque Dam in Angola today.
NAMPOWER will dispatch a special task team, consisting of 30 technical experts in various fields, to the Calueque Dam in Angola today.
NamPower spokesperson Tangeni Kambangula says the team will work on the refurbishment and upgrade of the Calueque substation at the Calueque Dam.
The Calueque Dam refurbishment project will commence on 13 September and will run until 4 October. “NamPower, in conjunction with NamWater, is upgrading the Calueque substation from a 3MVA 66/3,3kV to a 5MVA 66/6,6kV (N-1) transformer capacity,” Kambangula says.
The upgrade has been necessitated by an increase in demand as a result of the newly installed pumps of Angola's Gabhic, the managers of the Kunene River Basin.
He says the exercise will cost NamWater N$38 million, of which NamPower contributed N$10 million as a goodwill gesture towards an interim substation, which currently supplies Gabhic and is available for commissioning the permanent pumps.
The Calueque Dam is situated approximately 20km north of the Mahanene border post in Angola, and 25km upstream from the Ruacana power station on the Kunene River.
“Currently, NamWater is making use of a 3 MVA 66/3,3kV supply point at the Calueque substation, which is NamPower-owned and operated,” Kambangula says.
NamWater pumps are supplying the water canal in the north of Namibia.
Kambangula says NamPower has already positioned two 5 MVA 66/6,6kV transformers on their respective plinths and has developed 90% of the 6,6kV feeder base within the Calueque substation in Angola.
“Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic had a negative impact on the completion of the project,” he says.
NamPower's executive for transmission, Braam Vermeulen, says NamPower's greatest assets are its people and they should be valued for the essential work they do for the company and the country.
Eino Vatileni is a freelancer from the north working with The Namibian.
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