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Culture is key - Namwandi Education Minister Dr David Namwandi says sustainable development cannot take place in the country if it is not grounded within the cultural values of the people and their national languages. He made this remark in the capital on Wednesday during the official opening of a one-day Annual General Assembly of the Namibia National Commission for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Namwandi said Namibia recognises and values the current efforts of the international community in advocating that culture should include creative industries which are at the centre of sustainable development in the preparations for a post-2015 global development agenda. Hoveka Royal House makes unity call Chief Turimuro Hoveka of the Hoveka Royal House has called on his subjects to embrace unity and concentrate on the clan’s socio-economic development. Hoveka, who took up the chieftaincy last year after the death of his father Sylvanus Keveriua Hoveka, said the Hoveka Royal House is committed to the well-being of all those who fall under it. He made the remarks on Sunday during the commemoration of Chief Nikanor Hoveka’s death. Nikanor Hoveka was a leader of the Hoveka Royal House until his death in 1951, and the annual commemoration is now in its 46th year. Villagers building bridge at Epanya The villagers of Epanya, Onepandaulo and Ohailulu in the Oshana Region want contractors constructing the Okatana-Onhuno road to support their construction of a bridge by donating building materials. The spokesperson of the villagers, Sakaria Kandali Madju told Nampa at the weekend that the local river is dangerous to cross during floods and has already claimed three lives during 2008 to 2010 flood seasons. A teacher from Onepandaulo Combined School was one of the three people who lost their lives in the river after attempting to cross it during a flood. “You can only go through deep water during the floods to reach Onepandaulo School, the local church or the Okatana-Endola district road, because our area is surrounded by this river’s two branches,” Madju said. Reports by Nampa