Category: National
Beer Dominates Beverage Exports
By: Nghinomenwa-vali Hangala Namibia’s monthly beverage exports show that alcohol beverages are the most exported. The beverages are mostly sold to SADC countries. Namibia sells between 11, 000 and 13,000 hectolitres of beer to neighbouring countries in a monthly…
TotalEnergies Now the Operator of Namibia’s Two Largest Oil Discoveries
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala TotalEnergies has received the green light from the Namibian government to acquire a 40% operating interest in the PEL83 license, which holds the Mopane Oil discovery from Galp. This approval makes the oil giant…
Space Science Act and Agency in the Works
By: Dwight Links Namibia is developing legislation for participating in the realm of space science and the technology that is developed around it. The public engagement process was conducted by the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sports,…
Experimental Teen Offered TVET Training and Scholarship
By: Annakleta Haikera For four years, Visentius Kapumburu experimented with discarded materials, driven by a curiosity that few around him fully understood in Gcwagi Village, Kavango West Region. With little formal education and coming from a family…
Illegal Industrial Scale Drug Lab Suspects Appear in Court
By: Helmut Mahongo The 13 suspects of a multimillion-rand industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory that operated in the northwest of Johannesburg appeared in court yesterday. The suspects were arrested in May after residents reported strong chemical odours coming from an isolated…
Geology Cannot Be Commanded, and Capital Cannot Ignore Economics
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala The government of Namibia, through the Minister of Mines and Energy, Modestus Amutse, has an understanding that it cannot command geology to become commercial or ask capital to ignore economics. Amutse expressed this at the Occasion…
CRAN to Serve as Country’s Root Certification Authority
By: Erastus Andreas Through Namibia’s National Public Key Infrastructure Framework, the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia, CRAN, will serve as the country’s Root Certification Authority (Root CA). The sector regulator will be providing the trust anchor for secure digital…
Namibia Joins SA in Digitising Embedded Generation
By: Hee-Dee Walenga The Electricity Control Board (ECB), in collaboration with GET.transform officially launched an Embedded Generation Online Application Platform intended to digitalise and advance the Electricity Supply Industry of Namibia. Namibia becomes only the third country in Africa…
Lawyer Turns N$200,000 Youth Fund Support Into Law Firm
By: Annakleta Haikera At 27, Naboth De Celestino is challenging the conventional path into Namibia’s legal profession by choosing entrepreneurship over waiting years to establish himself under an existing law firm. With financial assistance of N$200 000 from the…
Road Accidents: A Public-Health, Socio-economic, and Development Crisis
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala The National Council Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Housing has declared the country’s road accidents a national public-health, socioeconomic, and development crisis. The Committee has also attributed driver behaviour as the main cause of accidents. From…