Author: Hee-Dee Walenga
FC Ongos Ladies Win 2nd FNB WSL Title
By: Hee-Dee Walenga The 2026 FNB Women’s Super League (WSL) season came to a dramatic close on Sunday, with the FC Ongos Ladies being crowned as champions for the second time. Coming into the final day of…
Africa’s Push for a Commercial Sports Product
By: Hee-Dee Walenga The sixth season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) is approaching its climax, with the playoffs of Africa’s premier basketball competition currently underway in Kigali, Rwanda, at the BK Arena. The BAL is the brainchild…
CityAlerts Wins Tech-Filled Nexus Speed Pitch Event
By: Hee-Dee Walenga The Basecamp Business Incubator hosted its second Nexus speed pitch event of the year on Wednesday evening in Windhoek. The quarterly event serves as an opportunity for local founders still in the ideation phase…
IFC Invests in African Sports on the Sidelines of the Africa CEO Forum
By: Hee-Dee Walenga Between 14 and 15 May 2026, over 2,800 business leaders, investors, and policy makers convened in “The Land of a Thousand Hills” for the 2026 Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, Rwanda. At the centre of…
TotalEnergies to Prioritise Local Transport Suppliers
By: Hee-Dee Walenga TotalEnergies Namibia has committed to making use of local transport companies in the oil sector, while advising them to position themselves by ensuring compliance with various requirements. TotalEnergies lead for contracts and procurement engineer…
NGH2P Provides Industry Update at Namibia-EU Business Forum
By: Hee-Dee Walenga During the ongoing Namibia-EU Business Forum, Joseph Mukendwa, Interim Head of the Namibia Green Hydrogen Programme (NGH2P), outlined that value addition, employment creation, and closing the inequality gap in Namibia are…
Njaba Seed Fund to Provide Capital to SADC From Namibia
By: Hee-Dee Walenga Bellatrix Investment Managers launched the Njaba Seed Fund in Windhoek yesterday evening. The fund will target startups that are beyond the idea stage but lack the capital needed to scale their operations. Speaking…
Tech Giants Fight Over OpenAI
By: Hee-Dee Walenga Elon Musk & Sam Altman launched OpenAI as a non-profit in 2015. The goal was to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to the masses and keep the potential dangers of it out of the hands of…
Namibians Should be Proud of Seawork – President
By: Hee-Dee Walenga President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah received a tour of the Seawork Fish Processors facility in Walvis Bay over the weekend. Whilst touring the facility, a representative of the 23-year-old company explained to the President how the…
Cyber Compliance is Not a Sufficient Form of Cyber Security – Panelists
By: Hee-Dee Walenga A panel discussion at the 3rd annual Namibia International Cybersecurity Conference & Exhibition saw various industry experts gauge what it would take for Namibia to move from policy documents and framework language to real implementation…