Category: Top Stories

Rani Group to Lease Ramatex for 25 Years
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The Municipal Council of Windhoek has granted in-principle approval for Grow More Investments CC to lease 2 portions (7 and 8) of Farm 466 (Ramatex Textile Namibia) for the next 25 years. Grow More Investments CC is…

Daures GH2 Breaks Ground for Fertiliser Plant
By: David Shoombe Daures Green Hydrogen project CEO, Jerome Namaseb, stated that Namibia will have a good opportunity to sell low carbon synthetic fertilisers in southern African states as only 7% of the 4.5 million tonnes consumed by the…

Wealth Creation Can’t Come From Resource Extraction Solely – NCCI
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala The Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) has indicated that wealth creation and sustainable economic growth cannot come from resource extraction but rather from industrialisation and innovation. The Chamber’s CEO, Titus Nampala, stated…

Namibia Lacks Up-to-date Picture on Skills Landscape
By: Dwight Links and Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala There is no comprehensive up-to-date picture of Namibia’s current skills landscape. Moreover, the number of Namibians who are equipped to participate meaningfully in emerging industries, according to Dino Ballotti, the Deputy Minister of Education,…

Meatco to Slaughter 75,000 Cattle for FY25/26
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala One of the country’s main beef processors, Meatco, has indicated that it has budgeted to slaughter 75,000 cattle for the Financial Year (FY) ending January 2026. So far, the company has slaughtered more than 25,000 animals from…

Haib Copper Project Will Need 150MW and 20 Million m3 of Water Per Year
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus According to the released Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) of the Haib Copper Project in southern Namibia, the project will require 20 million cubic metres of water, and this can potentially be piped from Namibia’s Neckartal storage…

212MW Worth of Solar Panels Imported Since Last Year
By: Dwight Links Namibia has imported 212 megawatts worth of photovoltaic (PV) panels from China from 2024 to June 2025, according to the renewable energy think tank, Ember. According to the report on renewable energy equipment import data that is…

Govt Debt up by N$66 Billion in 5 Years
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala As of Friday last week, local investors have lent N$139.7 billion to the Namibian government to fill its budget shortfall for the past five financial years through bonds and treasury bills. This is an increase from N$73.8 …

Namibia Doesn’t Transform its Re-Exports
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala Observations from the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) have revealed that Namibia has been importing products, mostly raw commodities, and exporting them immediately with no transformation. This is shown in the country’s monthly trade…

Domestic Markets Filled With Capital
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala The Bank of Namibia, on behalf of the country treasury, has announced that it has changed its plan to borrow N$2 billion from outside because the domestic market is full of capital looking for growth avenues. The…