Author: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus
3,487 New Jobseekers Registered in 2nd Quarter; 706 Vacancies Reported…256 Placed by Labour Services
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangla From April to June 2026, the Directorate of Labour Market Services has registered a total of 3,487 new jobseekers, comprising 1,414 males and 2,073 females. According to the Ministry of Labour Relations Quarterly Report…
Govt Borrowed N$18.4 Billion Domestically in 8 Months
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala In the past eight months (January to August 2026), the government of Namibia has borrowed N$18.4 billion from the domestic capital pool to fill the national budget. This is according to calculations done by…
Nasan Energies Completes First Phase of Service Station Rebranding
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala Nasan Energies has completed the first phase of its service station rebranding programme, as the new fuel retailer builds its presence across Namibia. The company announced this last week. Nasan bought and took…
Business Enhancement Exhibition Heads Back to Outapi
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala Organisers of the Business Enhancement Exhibition have confirmed that the second edition will take place on the 3rd and 4th of October 2026 at O’Zodiac Star Pension Hotel in Outapi. This was confirmed in…
Businesses Borrowed N$2.2 Billion this Year
By: Nghiinomenwa Hangala From January to July 2026, the business community has borrowed N$2.2 billion from commercial banks. This is lower than the N$2.8 billion borrowed at the same time last year, according to the monetary and financial statistics,…
Beer Dominates Beverage Exports
By: Nghinomenwa-vali Hangala Namibia’s monthly beverage exports show that alcohol beverages are the most exported. The beverages are mostly sold to SADC countries. Namibia sells between 11, 000 and 13,000 hectolitres of beer to neighbouring countries in a monthly…
TotalEnergies Now the Operator of Namibia’s Two Largest Oil Discoveries
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala TotalEnergies has received the green light from the Namibian government to acquire a 40% operating interest in the PEL83 license, which holds the Mopane Oil discovery from Galp. This approval makes the oil giant…
87.1% of Farming Households do so Just to Eat … farming is not viewed as an income source but as an act of survival
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala According to the 2025 Namibia Financial Inclusion Survey, most farming households (87.1%) are farming to produce food for self consumption, not for income generation. The survey found that only a small proportion (9.6%) of…
Geology Cannot Be Commanded, and Capital Cannot Ignore Economics
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala The government of Namibia, through the Minister of Mines and Energy, Modestus Amutse, has an understanding that it cannot command geology to become commercial or ask capital to ignore economics. Amutse expressed this at the Occasion…
Road Accidents: A Public-Health, Socio-economic, and Development Crisis
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala The National Council Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Housing has declared the country’s road accidents a national public-health, socioeconomic, and development crisis. The Committee has also attributed driver behaviour as the main cause of accidents. From…