Category: Business
1,200 Learners In Informal Settlements Get Solar Lamps
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The Capricorn Foundation has donated 1,200 portable solar lamps to 10 schools in informal settlements in various regions of the country. With the country’s electrification still below 50% and worse in rural areas, having access to electricity…
City Working On Proposal To Write Off Pensioner Debt And Interest …the Local Authority Act is the barrier
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus and Lavinia Shawapala The City of Windhoek is currently working on a proposal to write off debts of pensioners and interest for all residents. The City is, however, busy with audits in line with its approval processes, which…
CoW Considers A Mini-Grid For Mix Settlement
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The City of Windhoek has announced that it is working with the Berlin Energy Agency (BEA) on a feasibility study to develop a solar photovoltaic (PV) mini-grid for the Mix Informal SettlementArea (MISA). The MISA is located about…
IDs Usage Between Nam And Bots Picking Up
By:Nghiinomenw-vali Erastus Around 6,500 people who travelled from Namibia to Botswana used their national identity cards (IDs) to cross over, and around the same number of people who crossed over from Botswana also used it as the new cross-border document….
All Click Sounds In Names To Be Unicoded
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Securitylast week indicated that it will work with the University of Namibia to identify all the undocumented clicks and special characters in languages used in the country. After identification, the…
Basecamp Namibia Welcomes FNB Partnership …to transform ideas and concepts into businesses
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus In an era of risk aversion, entrepreneurship development and incubation is critical, says Basecamp Namibia Director Jesay Hano-oshike. The Villager interviewed Hano-oshike on the partnership between First National Bank Namibia (FNB) and Basecamp which aims to continue entrepreneurship…
Mining Exports Generate N$26,6 Billion In Five Months …diversification remains an elusive dream
By:Nghhinomenwa-vali Erastus The extractive sector still dominates the country’s economic outlook. Mining has been dominating past and current trade statistics, as the country’s export basket refuses to change despite political intentions. For the past five months, Namibia’s top export commodities…
New N$600 Million DBN Loan To Focus On Large-Scale ‘Green’ Projects
By: Annakleta Haikera The Development Bank of Namibia (DBN) has taken up another concessional loan from the German Development Bank, the Kreditanstallt fuer Wierderafbau (KfW) of about N$600 million ( about €30 million) for the funding of climate-mitigation infrastructure. The…
Southern Africa Has An Electricity Deficit Of 9,779 MW …SA accounts for 92% of this deficit, Namibia third
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The Southern Africa Power Pool (SAPP) has indicated that the market for electricity generation is massive as the 12 member countries have over 9,8 Gigawatts of electricity needs. Thus, many Namibian power producers are opting to fill this…
Kunene Leaders Welcome NamRa’s Satellite Office At Opuwo
Uakutura Kambaekua Residents of Opuwo and its environs will no longer have to drive great distances to receive good standing certificates, register for tax, or submit their tax returns. This follows the recent opening of a satellite office in the…