The Road Fund Administration (RFA) will introduce charges for the use roads for heavy transport vehicles from 1 April 2006. The RFA announced this week it would hold stakeholder meetings in 5 different towns to inform those in the transport business how the charges will be applied and what fees are entailed. The first meeting will be held in Windhoek this Friday, 24 March at 9h00 in the Windhoek Country Club. In Keetmanshoop the RFA staff will hold a meeting on Monday, 27 March at 11h00 in the Canyon Hotel. There will be only one meeting at the coast and that is on Tuesday, 28 March at 9h00 in the Atlantic Hotel. This is followed by a meeting at Oshakati in the Country Lodge on Wednesday, 29 March at 9h00. The last meeting will take place on 30 March at Rundu, 9h00 at the Omashare River Lodge. Any further information can be obtained form the project manager of the mass distance charge project, Mr Arthur Loftie-Eaton at 061-378 950 or e-mail to info@rfanam.com.na.

The Windhoek-based company African Directory Services (ADS) that has compiled and printed the annual Namibia telephone directory since 2000, has rolled out to Botswana. ADS announced this week that it won the contract to print and publish the Botswana 2006 telephone directory last year. According to Ms Hania Janiurek-Ashipala of ADS, the company set up an office in Gaborone last year in June 2005, employing a team of 18 people to handle advertising sales, design, data entry and billing. From there, the material was forwarded to ADS in Windhoek where final production and printing took place. A total of 165,000 copies were printed, loaded onto 4 trucks, taken along the Kalahari Highway and delivered to Gaborone last week. "We are a multi-facetted publishing company as we also compiled our own annual magazine, Business Namibia", said Janiurek-Ashipala. It covers Namibia’s main economic sectors and potential opportunities".

Last weekend Prime Minister Nahas Angula launched the second edition of the magazine, Business Namibia 2006 at the new headquarters of ADS in Haddy Street, behind the Susanne Grau old age home. Tshombe Ndadi, who previously managed the printing company Namprint and Aim Publications formed ADS a few years ago.