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SSC launches the employment and salary protection scheme
Namibia Finance minister Ipumbu Shiimi together with the Social Security chief executive Milka Mungunda launched the National Employment and Salary Protection Scheme for Covid-19 on Monday in Windhoek. Mungunda said before this launch, they considered the following: Assessment of comparative…
Geingob appoints !Gawaxab as central bank governor
Retired Old Mutual Africa managing director and now Eos Capital executive chairman Johannes !Gawaxab is now the Bank of Namibia governor. !Gawaxab takes over from Ipumbu Shiimi who was appointed the finance minister in March. President Hage Geingob announced !Gawaxab’s appointment…
Namibia locked into 10 zones and 69 checkpoints
Home affairs minister Farns Kapofi said Namibia’s 14 regions have been clustered into 10 zones, comprising 69 lockdown points between zones, to give impetus to the countrywide lockdown as indicated in the Deployment Plan. The lockdown checkpoints will be established…
Teachers should be at schools on 6 May – education minister
Education minister Anna Nghipondoka said teachers are expected to be “physically” at schools 6 May 2020 although learners will stay home until further notice because some schools have no water. She said the ministry is not starting from scratch with…
Kashikola says life won’t be the same under lockdown
Home affairs deputy minister Daniel Kashikola said the life during the lockdown will not be the same because the nature of the state of emergency means certain rights will be taken away. Kashikola, who spoke during Friday’s Covid-19 morning session…
Finance ministry pays out N$110m in Covid-19 grants
The finance ministry paid out more than N$110 million to 146 974 Namibians on Wednesday who applied for the Emergency Income Grant. Tonateni Shindhudhu, the finance ministry spokesperson said the payments were supposed to have been done on Tuesday this…
Community transmissions could be just a matter of time – Dr Haufiku
The Namibia National coordinator, Dr Bernard Haufiku, says people cannot say that Namibia can only suspect that there are community transmissions and that he suspects community transmissions are just a matter of time before it’s discovered. He also said it…
Namibia to be under lockdown, open markets to open
President Hage Geingob said the cabinet decided to extend the lockdown in Khomas and Erongo regions as well as bring all the other 12 regions under lockdown as from Friday 17 April 2020. The announcement made Tuesday at State House…
Covid-19: Public service wage bill needs serious attention – PM
The Namibian economy is expected to implode further as all sectors take a blow from the Covid-19 pandemic, and fears have surfaced over the future jobs of civil servants. The pandemic and lockdowns will further put a burden on the…
Chinese embassy says Africans in China safe
The Chinese Embassy in Namibia has broken silence on ongoing allegations that Africans, Namibian nationals included, in China were being evicted from homes out of fear that they may be spreading Covid-19. This has led to a confrontation of the…