{"id":444539,"date":"2011-06-20T13:45:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T13:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/20\/new-newspaper-launched\/"},"modified":"2011-06-20T13:45:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T13:45:03","slug":"new-newspaper-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/new-newspaper-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"New Newspaper Launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"21.7011235955\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/namibian180.jpg\" alt=\"The Namibian (Windhoek)\" title=\"Visit The Namibian (Windhoek)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>20 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The first &#8220;black-owned and black-initiated&#8221; bi-weekly newspaper, The Villager, was launched on Thursday evening by President Hifikepunye Pohamba.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper is an initiative of publisher John Walenga of Omalaeti Productions, with the intention to &#8220;fill the gap by becoming the definitive and impartial news media&#8221;, by &#8220;complementing the policy of indigenisation and empowerment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Walenga said the agenda of The Villager is to &#8220;track down&#8221; the role of Targeted Investment Programme for Employment and Economic Growth (TIPEEG) through which Government intends to create jobs for particularly the youth, and the manifestation of Vision 2030.<\/p>\n<p>He said coverage would entail 60 to 70 per cent business and finance, with a further 20 per cent covering social and political issues, with sport and entertainment comprising 10 per cent of coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Walenga said The Villager has already created 17 permanent jobs &#8220;with hundreds to be created downstream through sales&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Taken from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106201606.html\" title=\"New Newspaper Launched\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Newspaper Launched<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 20 June 2011 The first &#8220;black-owned and black-initiated&#8221; bi-weekly newspaper, The Villager, was launched on Thursday evening by President Hifikepunye Pohamba. 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Walenga said the agenda of The Villager is to &#8220;track down&#8221; the role of Targeted Investment Programme for Employment and Economic Growth (TIPEEG) through which Government intends to create jobs for particularly the youth, and the manifestation of Vision 2030<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Newspaper Launched - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/new-newspaper-launched\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"New Newspaper Launched - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"20 June 2011 The first &quot;black-owned and black-initiated&quot; bi-weekly newspaper, The Villager, was launched on Thursday evening by President Hifikepunye Pohamba. 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