Category: News
Corridor Group Consultant Calls for Lubumbashi Consulate
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus The Walvis Bay-Ndola-Lubumbashi Development Corridor members have urged Namibia to consider opening a diplomatic consulate in Lubumbashi DRC to ease trade and issue visas. Moreover, urgently decentralise the issuance and extension of commercial visas services from Windhoek…
Bonds Oversubscription Reveals Govt Asset Dominance
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus The Bank of Namibia has indicated that the high appetite for government debt securities is due to media coverage/awareness, small funds to be raised locally this year, and the urge to fulfil long-term investment plans. At the…
The Village Master- The Art of Making Okaanda
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus In the current economic structure that almost and continues to wipe out indigenous knowledge, skills are acquired by going to high learning institutions- indigenously skills are passed on from one generation to another. This is done through…
We Took About US$800 000 – David on Cyril Money
Staff Writer The mastermind in the Cyril Ramaphosa farm theft Imanuwela David has been quoted by South African media saying that they did not take all the money they found stashed under the furniture. Sunday Times reported that they obtained…
Benjamin Announces COSAFA 35-man Provisional Squad
By: Uakutura Kambaekua Brave Warriors’ newly appointed gaffer Collin Benjamin announced a provisional squad of 35 players for the upcoming 2022 Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) tournament set for Durban, South Africa, in July. Benjamin, who was appointed…
Swapo National Policy Conference in Two Weeks
Staff writer Swapo’s secretary-general Sophia Shaningwa has revealed that the ruling party’s National Policy Conference will take place in two weeks, on 1 and 2 July. Shaningwa revealed this during the Swapo party District Coordinators’ Workshop on Saturday. The conference…
Children Deliberately Drop Out of School – Nangolo Mbumba
By: Eba Kandovazu Vice President Nangolo Mbumba says some children deliberately choose to not go to school. He says the situation is worsened by parents who also do not send them to school. He says this is why many children…
Okahandja Greenlights Tender Amidst SME Concerns
By: Justicia Shipena and Hertha Ekandjo Okahandja Town Council has greenlit a waste removal tender despite business people in the town raising concerns about the municipal cleaning tender’s requirements. The group claimed that the requirements are shutting out small and…
Zimbabweans Clinch US$113 million Grove Mall Property
Zimbabwean investors, including pension funds, are working on plans to take over a US$113 million (N$1,8 billion) property, The Grove Mall of Namibia, in Windhoek. The deal, which is at an advanced stage, is being coordinated by two local financial…
Lack of Competition Makes Data Expensive in Namibia-CRAN
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus Namibia is one of the most expensive countries in Africa for mobile broadband, the cheapest product assessed by the first quarter of 2021 for 1GB monthly prepaid usage was around N$124.5. (USD8.3). As a result, Namibia slipped…