Namibia’s multi-faceted social safety net programme, which is globally touted as resilient and shock-responsive, continues to lift thousands of Namibians from abject poverty through which food-insecure people access healthy and nutritious meals daily. The country’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) Feeding Programme, spearheaded by the government through the gender equality and child welfare ministry with technical...
Lawmaker Tobie Aupindi has warned that Namibia cannot afford to keep investors in a limbo while taking forever to make timeous and conclusive decisions that would result in job creation and economic growth. He was expressing frustration with the slow progress around determining the fate of Russian mining giant Uranium One, whose planned operations remain...
Out of about 455 000 youth in the country’s labour force, about 253 000 are in full-time or gainful employment, while the remaining 202 000, which is about 44.4%, are still without jobs, according to the latest figures contained in the National Development Plan (NDP6). Overall, Namibia’s entire labour force stood at 867 247 in...
Through concerted efforts in collaboration with the Regional Electricity Distributors (REDs), government will by 2030 connect over 200 000 houses to the electricity grid. That number is expected to grow to 400 000 households by 2040. This was revealed by mines and energy minister Natangwe Ithete. He recently shared government’s ambitious plans to connect thousands...
Namibia is leading most African countries in the race to achieve the globally accepted and World Health Organisation (WHO) certified 95/95/95 HIV/Aids targets. The targets translate to 95/95/95 HIV testing, treatment and viral suppression targets aimed at closing gaps in HIV treatment coverage and outcomes in all sub-populations, age groups and geographic settings. The first...
TOASIS – Hosea Katjikururume Komombumbi Kutako, the late paramount chief of Ovaherero, an unparalleled nationalist, commander, and prisoner of the German-Herero war of 1904/08, indisputably remains the most consequential Namibian of the past century. The month of August is of utmost importance in Namibia’s long and brutal history, especially when discussing the country’s bloodstained colonial...
Government continues to make steady progress in addressing the shortage of school infrastructure and related amenities, following the construction of 42 new classrooms at various schools in the Otjozondjupa region. During the 2024/25 period, government has invested over N$23 million through the education ministry to construct an additional 42 classrooms at schools in Grootfontein, Okahandja...
AMINUIS – The Gobabis-Aranos Road project in the Omaheke region, which is currently at a 79% completion rate, has to date created over 435 jobs for skilled and unskilled individuals and a whopping N$23 million has been expended to small and medium subcontractors. Planned to cover a total of 245 kilometres and valued at almost...
Agribank has commenced with the process of selling the once thriving Witvlei abattoir, with the tender for the multi-processing abattoir, adjacent properties and various erven located at Witvlei already advertised. The State-owned bank has placed the abattoir and adjacent properties on sale for a reserve price of about N$52 million and announced that it will...
Joseph Kauandenge, president of the Association for Localised Interest (Asoli), has accused regional governors and various political actors of using the government’s National Youth Development Fund (NYDF) as a campaign tool ahead of this year’s regional and local authorities elections. Kauandenge, a former Nudo secretary general who now heads Asoli, fears that opposition political parties...