SWAKOPMUND – Namibia is exploring a more sustainable and value-added approach to its seal industry. The seal industry to date has struggled to transform its seal quota into a more revenue and job creation sector due to a lack of international markets and pressure by human rights groups. The Namibian seal harvest has been a...
SWAKOPMUND – Namibia needs a skilled, adaptable and innovative workforce to support major economic transformation. This is according to the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) senior education officer Ezekiel Nauta, who was speaking at the opening of the two-day review meeting of the National TVET Policy of 2021. The policy aims to develop...
SWAKOPMUND – Residents of Usakos are demanding more police visibility and stricter bail measures for violent criminals. The concerned community held a peaceful protest yesterday morning and handed over a petition at the Usakos Magistrate’s Court. The petition was received by prosecutor Steven Kamunima, just before murder accused Steven “Xam” Garoëb (39) made his first...
SWAKOPMUND – Blood-stained clothes hidden inside a water tanker led a team of police investigators to the man suspected of killing 43-year-old Imolatria Dominika Gaoses in Usakos on Friday. The 39-year-old man, who grew up in the same residential area as the deceased, was arrested on Friday afternoon after the clothes he was wearing earlier...
WALVIS BAY – The Dauredaman Traditional Authority has 21 days to elect an acting chief following the removal of Chief Zacharias Seibeb. Seibeb was official de-gazetted by President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and withdrawn in terms of Section 8(4) of the Traditional Authorities Act of 2000. The withdrawal was published in Government Gazette No. 8772 of 31...
WALVIS BAY – Employees of Princess Brand Processing, a fishing company, will be without jobs as from today. The company was forced to lay off its 634 workforce due to a lack of quota. The horse mackerel processing company, previously known as Seaflower Pelagic, was established in 2017 through a joint venture between Fishcor and...
SWAKOPMUND – The hard work of a young Swakopmund couple who took a leap into agri-processing has paid off. Frans and Constance Shivute yesterday produced their first official batch of locally made peanut butter from their small factory in Swakopmund. New Era had the opportunity to visit their operation and taste the product, which will...
SWAKOPMUND – The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested the former mayor of Omaruru, Hendrina Gebhardt marking it the third arrest in Erongo in less than a week. Gebhardt, who is also the Swapo Party candidate for the Omaruru constituency in the upcoming regional elections, was taken into custody on Monday afternoon by ACC. Her arrest...
XOBOXOBOS – It may be a man’s world, but women at the Xoboxobos informal camp in Erongo are carving out a place in the male-dominated world of small-scale mining. These women stand their ground in this hard, manual labour that demands, just like for men, getting on their knees, crawling, and digging for hours to...
WALVIS BAY – Police in the Erongo region are investigating two major theft cases, including the stealing of nearly 700 seal bull genitals from a Henties Bay factory and the disappearance of 25 Friesian horses from a farm in Omaruru. This is according to Senior Inspector Judith Shomongula, who on Friday indicated that suspects on...