Author: Staff Writer
O&L Gets Permit To Construct N$350 Million Solar Park In Germany
By: Staff writer O&L Nexentury GmbH, a subsidiary of the Ohlthaver & List Group, has been granted the advanced water management permit (“gehobene wasserrechtliche Erlaubnis” in German) for the construction and operation of a floating solar photovoltaic park. The…
Nam Using 2015 Tourism Survey Data To Make Decision – NSA
By: Staff writer The country needs to be capacitated in collecting tourism statistics as the country is currently using outdated data to make decisions. This was revealed by Abel Sindano, Executive Economics Department at the National Statistics Agency (NSA). Sindano…
Paratus Signs Partnership For Retail Outlets In Informal Sector
By:Staff writer Paratus Namibia has signed a partnership deal in which it has branded three shops in informal areas in Windhoek where its Mobile LTE services are advertised and sold. The three existing shops in Soweto, Otjomuise and Okuryangava sell…
Challenges On The Frontier For Resettled Farmers
By;Staff Writer Farmers who have been moved through the government’s resettlement programme to address land redistribution continue to face a slew of obstacles. Lack of training, paucity of water, insufficient money, limited farming implements, and bush encroachment are only a…
Vehicles sales decline from March to April
By:Staff writer Vehicle sales increased by 11.6% in April this year compared to the same point in 2022, after a total of 1,004 new vehicles were sold in the month. This is despite an 18.11% decline m/m from the 1,226…
Digital Spaces: Rights And Responsibilities
Admire Mare Digitisation is no longer something in the distant future but an everyday reality, even in Africa, which is still struggling to modernise its ageing telecommunications infrastructure. Although digitisation as a transformative social process has been in full swing…
Hyphen Agrees European Green Ammonia Imports Via Port Of Rotterdam
By:Staff writer Hyphen Hydrogen Energy (Pty) Ltd, the preferred bidder for the development of a EUR 9.1billion (N$184 billion) green hydrogen project in Namibia, has signed a pact that enables the future imports of green ammonia into northwestern Europe through…
Diamonds Exports Increase By N$1.3 Billion For March …..As uranium exports take a nosedive
By:Staff writer Namibia exported diamonds worth N$3.3 billion in March, reflecting a N$1.3 billion month-on-month increase from the N$2 billion that the country exported in February this year. The commodity was the highest contributor to the country’s exports for the…
‘Eco-modernists’ Fail To Appreciate The Societal Importance Of Livestock
By:Joanna Blythman I was reminded of the importance of meat in cultures all around the globe by my Namibian friend Mbinao. She showed me pictures of herself dressed in traditional Herero costume, notably the horizontal horned headdress called an otjikaiva….
Not the kind of life a human being should live’: How Namibia’s sanitation crisis is endangering its people and its future
By: Frederick Clayton and Sonja Smith Every day, Natalia Shaanika, 15, escorts her five younger siblings across a busy road to a landfill site to relieve themselves. As they squat – partially hidden by scraps of corrugated iron and used…