Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

To remedy the overcrowding situation at the popular overcrowded Ndama Combined school in Rundu, the ministry of education has almost completed the construction of a fully-fledged primary school at the informal settlement.

The late withdrawal of Olympic sprint double champion Elaine Thompson-Herah might have stolen a bit of spark away from today’s Brussels Diamond League meeting, but Namibia’s sprint aces Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi are determined to inject some oomph into the revered event.

Disappointment, pity, simply unfortunate and regretful are some of the words Paralympics coach Michael Hamukwaya could find to describe the disqualification of sprinter Ananias Shikongo and his guide Even Tjiviju during yesterday’s men’s T11 100m final at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.

Brave Warriors’ enterprising winger Deon Hotto believes the experience and maturity of the current crop of players in the senior national team will be enough to carry them through when they confront the Red Devils of Congo-Brazzaville today at the Orlando Stadium in South Africa.

Pan-African professional real estate services provider Broll Property Group, which has announced a new five-year plan and reinvigorated group strategy to position itself in the property sector in South Africa and across the continent, has appointed Jess Cleland as COO: Africa.

The world has become a global village because of its revolution. It has been said that the world is becoming a global village in which there are no boundaries to trade. I obtained a postgraduate qualification in Islamic Banking and Finance in 2020. This article aims to investigate the opportunities of development and growth, as well as the main challenges to Islamic financing for SMEs. 

Delivering quality connections for businesses is the principal mandate for Paratus Botswana and its fibre rollout will take this to a new level. Paratus has invested over US$6 million in independent fibre connectivity in Botswana as a seamless add-on to its existing infrastructure backbone. 

Although the total value of goods and services procured by the Namibian mining sector during 2020 was about N$12.3 billion, a significant portion of the local procurement amount still goes to foreign-owned Namibian registered companies. 

A prominent Namibian lawyer and activist, advocate Bience Gawanas, has called for political will to remove structural barriers to equality and end gender-based violence (GBV), amid indications that GBV has become a pandemic within the raging global Covid-19 pandemic. 

In a quest to increase the percentage of skilled and competent women in the cockpit and in police management, the Inspector General of the Namibian Police promoted three women in the Air Wing directorate.