Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Local fuel prices will increase for already the third time this year on Wednesday, 7 April 2021, when both petrol and diesel will go up by 50 cents a litre taking Walvis Bay pump prices of petrol to N$13.15 per litre and diesel to N$13.18 per litre.

In efforts to bring TransNamib back on track to profitability, CEO Johny Smith, yesterday at a stakeholder engagement said the company needs N$2.6 billion for their five-year business plan to reach break even by 2023.

In a bid to minimise international currency fluctuations, government approached the Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) to provide foreign currency to settle the 10-year Eurobond that matures this year.

What does Easter mean to us as Namibian Christians living in these times? Have you ever noticed how different Easter is from the Christmas season? Christmas shows up in the store in August. 

People are not only supposed to live in safer neighbourhoods but equally in an environment that provides peace of mind and allows human beings to co-exist, respect each other, and carry out daily activities without fearing that crime would engulf the society and destabilise livelihoods.

Aside from the title of this piece, the late German poet, novelist and playwright, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, also told the world that, “we must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.” 

Africa is experiencing another Scramble, but this time around it is a scramble for Europe, not for Africa.

While students’ academic dishonesty is a serious challenge affecting higher education institutions in various forms globally, in Namibia it seems that this academic misconduct is now at an unprecedented level that threatens to make the whole exercise and process of awarding qualifications a mockery if higher education institutions and stakeholders do not take sterner and harsher measures to nip th

The human capital demand that comes with the implementation of the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Advanced Subsidiary (NSSCAS) in Namibian schools stipulates extended effort for both teachers and learners. 

Fisheries minister Albert Kawana is not perfect, but he has surely earned himself new admirers judging by the manner in which he is presiding over the affairs of the fisheries ministry.