Author: Maihapa Ndjavera (Maihapa Ndjavera )

Since its establishment, the Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRA) has been pumping billions of dollars into state coffers as it consistently surpasses its collection targets.

The first European Union (EU)-Namibia Business Forum is expected to kick off in Brussels next week on 24 and 25 October.

State-owned fishing firm, the National Fishing Corporation of Namibia (Fishcor), is unable to pay government outstanding quota fees and levies originating from 2017, 2018, and 2019. 

Namibia is dedicated to pursuing an economic diversification policy to boost the industrial and service sectors and increasing overall manufacturing output.

After a decade, the Cyber Crime Bill, along with the Data Protection Bill and the National Cyber Security Strategy, is expected to be passed in the National Assembly next year. 

The cybersecurity landscape is constantly evolving, with new threats emerging all the time. This is especially true in Namibia, which is a rapidly developing country with a growing digital economy. 

Commercial banks are among the industries with the most regulations, making it necessary that such regulations are easy to understand and implement, the Bank of Namibia’s (BoN) director of information and communication technology (ICT) Marsorry Ickua said. 

Namibia is one of the nations in Southern Africa where data is significantly more expensive than elsewhere in the region and should not continue to make a fool of itself with these elevated prices.