Author: Staff Writer
NamPower Bets on Digitalisation to Build a Smarter, More Efficient Utility
Photo: Patricia Coetzee (NAMPA) By: Staff Reporter NamPower intends to make digitalisation a central part of its transformation over the next five years, according to its Integrated Strategic Business Plan (ISBP) for 2026–2030. It indicated that it will be…
NARRATIVE VS. REALITY: We are told stories. About genocide. About food security. The question is: are they true?
By: John JP Lenga Two stories landed on my desk this week. They do not appear to be connected. One is about Afrikaners who tried to become refugees in America. The other is about farms that were supposed…
Active or Passive? Namibia’s Investors May Be Asking the Wrong Question
By: Frederick Muller For years, investors have been encouraged to choose a side. Are you an active investor or a passive investor? The discussion has become one of the investment industry’s most persistent debates, fuelling conference panels, industry surveys…
Beyond the Fear of Foreign Investment: What Namibia Can Learn from China
By: Diana Ndeshihala Hainana In Namibia, discussions about foreign investment increasingly begin with the nationality of the investor rather than with the quality of the investment. There is understandable concern among some Namibians about increasing foreign involvement in important…
An Emerging Tobacco Product ban is as Good as its Regulation
By: Shatyohamba Haihambo As a bar owner, employer and taxpayer, I understand both sides of the debate around the proposed amendments to Namibia’s Tobacco Products Control Act. For years, businesses like mine have legally sold products such as vapes,…
THE LEADERSHIP TEST: WHAT REMAINS AFTER YOU LEAVE
By: Mufaro Nesongano Leadership is ultimately tested not by how long a person remains in office, but by what remains when that person leaves. That test is visible in three seemingly different stories. The first is Apple’s planned leadership…
FIMA: A New Dawn for Consumer Protection and Financial Confidence in Namibia
On the 1st of May 2026, Namibia entered a new era in financial regulation with the commencement of the Financial Institutions and Markets Act, Act No. 2 of 2021 popularly known as (FIMA). More than just a new law,…
THE BROKEN CONTRACT: A Boiling Pot, a Rotating Elite, and the Death of Struggle Capital
By: John JP Lenga The image is difficult to shake. In Divundu, a woman is recovering from serious burns after a man kicked a pot of boiling porridge at her. In Okakarara, a 43-year-old woman was assaulted with chains….
Your Ambition must be bigger than your Background
By: Arminda Hepute When I found myself at Marlborough House in London, participating in the Commonwealth Young Leaders Fellowship, the opening session of the Leadership Immersion Week for the inaugural cohorts, I had to pause for a moment…
Nuclear power can meet Africa’s and AI’s energy demands
Their power and potential are sometimes more than the imagination can fathom. They inspire awe and wonder, fear and trepidation. They are as misunderstood as they are revered. And, as bedfellows, artificial intelligence (AI) and nuclear energy might just…