Industry reports are emerging that the oil discoveries made offshore Namibia by Shell and TotalEnergies at the beginning of the year could hold much more oil and gas than originally expected.
Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )
Opinion – Structural reforms key to success of sustainable economic transformation
Namibia was bestowed the right by WorldSkills International to host the second edition of WorldSkills Africa. Young people must be at the heart of government plans for the
future.
Opinion – Egocentrism the Achilles heel to authentic social cohesion
Social cohesion that holds a nation together is not only a key basis for defining licit development goals in a country, but also a pertinent prerequisite for tackling the challenges that emerge from development processes.
Opinion – The mineral wealth of South Africa… the cause of one of the longest political squabbles in the world
Minerals constitute the source of materials from which our machines are built, and mineral fuels supply the energy that powers the machines.
Letter – The capitalist at our education dinner table
The increasing number of private higher learning institutions with their somewhat accommodative admission scales, coincidently with the introduction of the new curriculum with two exist points, has created a market for these private institutions to flourish.
Letter – Is the Namibian Police oblivious on what is a sworn declaration?
It is reported that whenever members of the public approach police officers to state their facts concerning them, by swearing upon such facts before police officers because the law requires that such swearing/oath should be administered by a commissioner of oaths, sadly, police officers misinterpret this.
Editorial – Of unfinished Govt projects
A considerable number of government projects – mostly worth millions of dollars - are lying idle, either abandoned by contractors or simply struggling to take off.
Know your civil servant – ‘The grass is also green in public service’
Poet Publius Ovidius Naso, better known as Ovid (43 BC and 17 AD), once wrote “fertilior seges est alenis semper in agris”, which translates: ‘the harvest is always more fruitful in another man’s fields.’
‘Courageous’ veteran laid to rest
The late Benedickus Johannes Nkundu, who died at the age of 80 on 19 March 2022 at Mururani, was laid to rest yesterday at Siya village in Kavango West’s Kapako constituency. Nkundu was accorded the honour of an official funeral by President Hage Geingob.
Councillors slam veil of secrecy over N$24m audit
The infamous findings contained in an audit report performed by accounting firm PwC Namibia over an alleged unaccounted for N$24 million have caused a rift among councillors at the Walvis Bay municipality.







