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TRADE COMMITS N$2,5M FOR MSME’s DEVELOPMENT
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus The Ministry of Trade and industrialisation wants an endowment fund to close the financing gap at the startups, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) level. The endowment fund will be the next phase of the Sustainable Development Goals…
FARMERS WANT URANIUM EPLS IN STAMPRIET CANCELLED
By: Kelvin Chiringa The Chairperson of the Stampriet Aquifer Uranium Mining Committee (SAUMC), Divan Opperman, wants to retract all EPLs issued for uranium prospecting across the Stampriet Artesian Basin. In the same breath, the organisation has thanked the agriculture ministry…
FRENCH TOURIST’S DEADVLEI DEATH…MINISTRY TO DETERMINE NEGLIGENCE ON TOUR GUIDE’S PART
By: Wonder Guchu The environment and tourism ministry say they are waiting for the police to conclude an investigation into the circumstances that led to the death of a French tourist in Namibia last week. Nicolas Remondiere (54) went missing…
A SMART DEAL BETWEEN ONGOS CONNECT AND PARATUS
Paratus Namibia and Ongos Connect, on the 10th of November, signed a commercial connectivity agreement, confirming that Paratus will be the technology / infrastructure partner to bring fibre connectivity to over 11,000 new residents in Ongos Valley, Namibia’s…
NAMIBIA CAR DEALERSHIPS HIT HARD…TOYOTA CUT GLOBAL PRODUCTION FOR NOVEMBER BY 15%
By: Nghiinomenwa Erastus Toyota, one of the local most consumed car brands, has cut global production for November by as much as 15% (between 100,000 and 150,000 cars), Simonis Storm Security revealed. The company representatives blame the ongoing global shortage…
IPC’S PANDULENI ITULA WANTS TO KNOW…WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR SWAPO DESIGNER JACKET?
By: Kelvin Chiringa The Fishrot corruption scandal bail hearing may have been postponed to next year, but the political ramifications created by the latest revelations have come back to sting the Swapo Party. At the centre of the issue is…
SUSPENDED SHIPWIKINENI RANTS…THEY WANT “YES MEN/WOMEN” AT SWAPO CONGRESS
By: Kelvin Chiringa Okahenge Swapo branch co-ordinator Reinhold Shipwikineni has said the leadership had suspended him because he is a political threat to some elements’ ambitions in the coming watershed congress. Shipwikineni has challenged his suspension, asking proof of whether…
GUNS GO MISSING FROM WINDHOEK POLICE DEPOT
By: Wonder Guchu Police are investigating arms that went missing from the central depot in Windhoek last week. Deputy commissioner Kauna Shikwambi confirmed to The Villager that arms are missing, and an investigation is ongoing. “The Central Depot was not…
ECN TO ENFORCE PARTY FUNDING TRANSPARENCY
By: Andrew Kathindi The Electoral Commission of Namibia says it will punish political parties that do not provide financial statements regarding their political party funding. Only two political parties provided financial statements to ECN in the last 2019/2020 financial year….
MOST OF ACCIDENT VICTIMS ARE YOUNG – ERONGO POLICE
Erongo police said they are worried that most of the people dying in road accidents are young. This comes after two accidents on Thursday and Friday killed six people in the Erongo region. Erongo police said around 17h00 along…