Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Indebted Namibian households and corporates can continue to expect a tight financial environment for the foreseeable future as interest rate hikes are expected to rise further towards the end of this year and during the first half of 2023. 

We need to be less wasteful. We need to economise our resources. The sooner we start tackling it, the better.

Recent media reports inform us that the Google internet cable has reached Namibian shores.

The harvesting and sale of Devil’s Claw from the Nyae Nyae and N#a Jaqna conservancies significantly contributed to the income of women in  2021, despite the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Many of the 140 women who on Friday received their houses through the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia jokingly said they have “made it in life”.  The handover happened in Okakarara at a ceremony filled with many smiles, tears and gratitude.

Fisheries observers have accused their agency of violating their employment conditions as they failed to implement a salary structure for the past 20 years.  

Health and Social Services’ minister Kalumbi Shangula commissioned a 4.2 tonnes medical oxygen tank at the Gobabis State Hospital last week.

Deputy prosecutor general Antonia Verhoef last week asked Windhoek High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg to move a former senior police officer attached to the Women and Child Protection Unit in Keetmanshoop from Seeis police station to the section for trial awaiting inmates at the Windhoek Correctional Facility.

Since the early hours of Saturday, all roads in Windhoek seemed to lead to the Pioneer’s Park cemetery.

Hilaria Mukapuli, a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Gender Equality, Social Development and Family Affairs, expressed her resentment at statements made by community members saying most of the time “women ask for it”, which she described as painful and disturbing.