Year: 2021

According to the English Wiktionary, the word, “kleptocracy,” means a corrupt and dishonest government or society characterized by greed.

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has multiple purposes. Governments across the world market TVET as the solution to youth unemployment and self-employment.

OMUTHIYA – Heavy downpours have inconvenienced many motorists in Oshikoto region in as much as it has brought some relief to subsistence farmers who were hard hit by the dry spell. 

OKAPA – Almost a month since the first case of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) was detected in Oshikoto region, kapana vendors are still without an income, as they are not allowed to operate.

The Uukwiyuushona Combined School in Oshana region opened for the new academic year last week, with strengthened measures to help curb the spread of Covid-19. 

WALVIS BAY – The Swakopmund municipality has set the ball rolling in coming up with a workable policy to help develop and promote small and medium enterprises at the coastal town. 

The much-awaited joint investigation report into the shooting incident of three Namibians and a Zambian national by the Botswana Defence Force last year is not yet for public consumption, Botswana leader Mokgweetsi Masisi said Friday. 

Finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi on Friday said government’s decision not to oppose the out-of-court settlement agreement between Challenge Air and Air Namibia, in which the former called for the liquidation of the national airline, is in the best interest of staff and country at large.

Namibian Broadcasting Corporation director general Stanley Similo says insisting on salary increases during these difficult times of the Covid-19 pandemic whereby some Namibians have become unemployed is ‘insensitive’. 

The governments of Namibia and Botswana have agreed to collaborate in the procurement and rollout of Covid-19 vaccines.