Year: 2021

An infrastructure investment fund, managed by Old Mutual Investment Group Namibia, has acquired a majority stake in a 5MW solar PV photovoltaic plant at Rosh Pinah in the //Kharas region.

Over the past year, digital payment instruments such as electronic wallet payments and funds transfers have increased substantially in volume and value.

Shakespeare Masiza, one of the brightest figures the Namibian bar has ever had, passed away on Monday 15 February 2021. 

The Covid-19 pandemic is a bleak reminder of the enduring inequity in global public health. 

Teacher shortages, learner failures and unemployed teachers are not new concerns in Namibia’s educational discourse.

ONGWEDIVA - The lifting of the ban on the transportation, slaughtering and selling of goats and sheep has been received with mixed feelings by northern meat traders. 

The police have made tremendous progress investigating the case of a Windhoek resident, who was arrested last year in connection to the heinous murder of his wife.

OMUTHIYA – Businesspeople, who had submitted bids for the Oshikoto Regional Council annual tenders, have been left agitated by the regional council’s decision to cancel the process. 

Communal farmers in the Kavango West region have once again bemoaned the existence of the Veterinary Cordon Fence (VCF), also referred to as the “red line”, saying it is depriving them an opportunity to market their livestock to other parts of the country. 

ONGOMBO WEST – Ongombo West, once a flourishing commercial flower farm, has now been wracked by high crime and violence, while the local community says they have become easy targets for criminals.