Year: 2021

Industrialisation and trade minister Lucia Iipumbu said the successful development of a viable backward linkage between Namibia’s coffin manufacturers and timber harvesters would ensure the development of a key value addition outlet of local timber. 

Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) parliamentarian Inna Hengari this week in the National Assembly stated that youth unemployment in Namibia is more than twice than that of adults. 

The issue I would like to bring to our attention is the question of environmental justice. 

All is now set for the announcement of the winners of this year’s Phoenix Short Stories for Children Competition, which is in its second year of running.

President Hage Geingob says part two of his visionary Harambee Prosperity Plan (HPPII) will focus on power and water infrastructure, as well as improving the country’s investment climate.

In his Muzokumwe Public Lecture 8, Prof. Joseph Diescho, the distinguished Namibian scholar, castigated the youth of Kavango East and Kavango West for failing to take up developmental responsibilities and bemoaned the demeaning unrepresentative situation of the regions in government key positions, despite being instrumental in winning votes because of their large numbers. 

For decades, oil prices have been the cornerstone of the global economy in that they move revenues from oil-importing countries to oil-exporting countries, dominating the OPEC-plus cartel and, ultimately, changing the terms of global trade. 

I read with much surprise in the Namibian Sun of Tuesday, 7 September 2021, the salient, highly contestable assertion that teacher Marco Hausiku doesn’t deserve a hero’s funeral, as there are more deserving candidates than him, who died recently. Let me respectfully advance my exception to this statement.

Namibia’s housing crisis has continued to deepen and broaden, with seemingly no lasting solution in sight. Housing prices in the country are mostly out of reach for ordinary citizens, who are paying more to live in apartments, as demand for housing increases. 

In January 1967, approximately 48 learners who wrote Standard Vl in the Kavango area in 1965-66, were rounded up by Mr Louise Burger, the then education inspector, to commence their education in the newly established Rundu Secondary School.