Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC), Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) and Methealth Namibia Administrators have inked an agreement to collaborate through research, technology and innovation.

The Popular Democratic Movement was dealt a hard blow by the High Court on Friday in its fight to get the court to set aside government’s decision to lease farms to a Russian billionaire. 

Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has deplored the challenging circumstances faced by the SADC region.

Urban families are increasingly finding themselves between rocks and hard places, grappling with a dire shortage of food supplies.

Namibia has long faced significant challenges concerning youth employment, income inequality and low levels of productivity.

Long-distance runners Simon Matias and Martha Shivolo were crowned winners of the 2023 Nedbank CitiDash Run on Sunday, 10 September, after successfully outclassing their opponents in the 10-kilometre (km) elite race category.

Namibian film ‘Bokwagter’ made its debut last night on kykNet & Kie on DStv channel 145 and GOtv channel 4, as well as Showmax, under the theme, ‘Namibia to the World’. 

For quite some time, the Office of the Labour Commissioner has observed that a significant number of trade unions and employers’ organisations have failed to submit required annual returns as mandated by the Labour Act. Alarmingly, some of these entities have not submitted a single annual return since their registration.

For the period ending 30 June 2023, Capricorn Group, including the Capricorn Foundation and its subsidiaries Bank Windhoek, Capricorn Asset Management, Entrepo and Bank Gaborone, invested N$21.7 million (2022: N$16.3 million) in social responsibility programmes and projects in Namibia and Botswana.

Transport minister John Mutorwa says there is nothing amiss about re-appointing the same contractor without going on tender for the second phase of a project.