Month: July 2021

The Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade, through the department of International Trade, will steer roadshows to create awareness of the recently launched Import/Export (IMEX) online system at border towns.

This opinion piece seeks to determine the extent to which the new Bank of Namibia Act 1 of 2020 (the Act) imports neoliberal central banking rules as well as the degree of divergence, if any, from traditional central bank mandates enshrined in law.

With spiking new Covid-19 cases and deaths being the order of the day in Namibia, the pandemic has added extra pressure to a nation already reeling. Moreover, the pandemic is no longer just a threat to human lives, as it now presents itself as a hurdle in the fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The novel coronavirus has had a devastating effect on the Namibian job market. The Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation has indicated that a total of 12 198 employees were retrenched by 896 employers from the period 1 January 2020 to 15 December 2020.

The Namibian Constitution Third Amendment Act 8 of 2014 makes provision for article 110 (a) regional governors, which states that (1) the President shall appoint regional governors as political heads of the regions, and an Act of Parliament shall further prescribe their powers and functions. 

The Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), which was recently detected in some parts of the Zambezi region, is fast spreading to other areas. 

Fishing industry bosses accompanied by the sector’s minister Derek Klazen on Thursday got vaccinated in an effort to encourage employees to follow suit at Walvis Bay.

Correctional facilities countrywide have been placed on lockdown in an attempt to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 within the facilities. 

During the last ‘family meeting’, President Hage Geingob announced amended regulations at the end of June to curb the spread of Covid-19, which has unleashed a deadly third wave of infections.

As the world reached four million Covid-19-related deaths last Thursday, Namibia crossed the unwelcome milestone of over 100 000 positive cases on that day.