Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Independent Patriots for Change’s councillor Dina Namubes was elected the new Swakopmund mayor yesterday morning.

The veld fires that had devastated farms around Rehoboth for almost a week have not yet been put out completely. 

Already struggling to remain financially afloat, the Namibia Football Association (NFA) last week suffered a massive blow at the office of the labour commissioner after arbitrator Liwela Sasele ordered the NFA to reinstate and pay hefty damages to former employee Werner ‘Kapepe’ Shikwambi, who was unfairly dismissed in 2020.

Vedanta Limited, the largest Indian investor in South Africa’s mining industry, recently signed two agreements with the state of Gujarat of India to set up a semiconductor fabrication plant, commonly referred to as a fab unit, a display fab unit, and a semiconductor assembling and testing unit in Ahmedabad in western India. 

The world of work continues to change at an unprecedented pace. People now have more choices and are no longer confined to one job for life or constrained by geographical locations.

FirstRand Namibia this week announced its results for the year ended 30 June 2022. The group delivered normalised earnings of N$1.86 billion exceeding peak 2016 earnings by 6.7%.

It is important that we sharpen our focus on being more than skilled individuals but humane professionals who have what it takes to enjoy and endure within organisations and social settings. 

It has been a challenge to study in the Usakos Secondary School hostel because there were not enough chairs to accommodate all the boarding learners.

Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India on Saturday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted big cats that has
divided experts on its prospects.