Category: National
Rising Oil Prices: A Looming Threat to Namibia’s Inflation
By:Justicia Shipena The rise in oil prices may result in higher transportation costs, which might contribute to growing inflation in Namibia. This is according to economists at Simonis Storm Securities. Inflation rates demonstrated a persistent rate below the 5% threshold…
NSA Budgets N$250 Million For Census Enumerators
By:EnumeratorsBrandon Shilongo The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) will payN$250 million inallowances to its ad hoc staff who will be involved in the conduct of the 2023 Population and Housing Census. The governmentallocatedN$706 million for the national exercise. This was revealed…
Vocational Trainees Assembling Agri Tractor Components …Eenhana VTC trainees to lead assembling
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus Under the Namibia Agricultural Mechanisation and Seed Improvement Project (NAMSIP), 350 tractors’ components are being procured at the cost of N$300 millionto assemble tractors locally. This was announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform Deputy…
Repo Rate Pushes Car Buyers To Buy Cash
By:Staff writer The repo rate has forced those purchasing vehicles to do so via cash transactions rather than on credit,a recent analysis has revealed. In August this year, the Bank of Namibia’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) opted to keep the…
BRICS+ to Serve as a Catalyst for Namibian Economic Development
Josef Kefas Sheehama Namibia should close working relationships between these nations and the academia to articulate ways of ensuring that Namibia is enlisted into the BRICS bloc of nations as soon as possible. It is beyond any doubt that the…
The NSA, ECN Sign MoU
By:Josefina Lukas The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) and the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) outlining areas of mutual cooperation between the two parties. NSA’s Statistician General and CEO, Alex Shimuafeni said census data…
Inflation Hits The Kitchen: Vegetable Prices Climb 16.9% in August
By:Justicia Shipena Namibians had to spend more money on veggies in August since prices rose by 16.9%, according to the Namibia Consumer Price Index data published by the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA). The country’s annual inflation rate for August was…
Communities Are Defensless To Unwanted Investment Without Information …are we hoarding information or is it just information asymmetry?
By:Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka It is becoming more doubtful when policymakers and political leaders announce how impactful certain proposed investments are to the country. Especially when they come to a certain community and tell them to give up a piece of land,…
Missionary Schools Hailed For Contributing To Development
By:Annakleta Haikera Missionary schools have contributed to the development of Namibians. This was expressed by the Deputy Minister of Education, Arts and Culture, Faustina Caley during the commemoration of the Andara Combined School’s 100 years anniversary in Mukwe constituency, Kavango…
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….