Sawi Hausiku RUNDU – The Rundu Town Council (RTC) plans to begin the first phase of constructing its new building during the 2025/26 financial year. Council staff currently work from government-owned offices, housed in one of the town’s oldest structures located on land belonging to the Ministry of Works and Transport. These offices, constructed from...
Lylie Joel NKURENKURU – The Kavango West Regional Council and Namibia Industrial Development Agency (Nida) met on Thursday to discuss a new strategy to transform the Kavango Cattle Ranch at Mangetti Farm into a profitable venture. The ranch is in the Tondoro constituency. The initiative seeks to improve cattle health and market quality, revamp farm...
Linea Dishena The government is having discussions with the United States of America (USA) regarding president Donald Trump’s 21% import tariffs on Namibian goods as from April 2025. This was confirmed by International Relations and Cooperation executive director, ambassador Penda Naanda, in an interview last week. The US has increased import tariffs to all its...
OTJIWARONGO – The Otjiwarongo Municipality unanimously approved the 2025/26 capital and expenditure budget of more than N$226 million at its special meeting on Friday. This is a N$82 million rise from the N$144 million budget that council tabled in 2024. Tabling the budget, which was supported by all the local authority councillors, the chairperson of...
Andreas Thomas The National Council’s committee on housing has urged the government to play a more active role in land servicing to accelerate the formal development of housing across various local authorities in Namibia. The committee recommended that the government draws lessons from Rwanda’s land and housing programmes, which facilitate the provision of affordable housing...
One of the key roles of a commercial bank is to manage liquidity and ensure access to funding to support financial stability and economic growth. Aligning funding costs with credit pricing, banks must respond to emerging trends, notably the global shift toward sustainable finance. As sustainability becomes integral to financial strategy, banks must ensure they...
Namibia has proved to be a future global leader in green hydrogen, as a delegation recently completed a four-day skills’ exchange tour to the Netherlands. The visit was aimed at accelerating the country’s green hydrogen ambitionsthrough knowledge-sharing and institutional collaboration. The Namibian delegation, comprising senior representatives from education, research and energy sectors, engaged Dutch counterparts...
Construction is expected to be the fastest-growing domestic sector this year, as it is forecast to expand by 8.5%, despite accounting for just 1.4% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024. Commenting on the latest building statistics, stock brokerage Simonis Storm (SS) noted the vigorous growth outlook is supported by a favourable combination of monetary...
BRUSSELS – Nearly half-a-decade in the making, a landmark set of new European Union (EU) environmental and human rights’ rules for businesses may be dead in the water as Brussels faces pressure to put economic growth first. French president Emmanuel Macron this week joined German leader Friedrich Merz in urging the EU to ditch corporate...
I recently had the pleasure of participating in the awards’ ceremony at the Namibian University of Science and Technology (Nust) at their Faculty of Computing and Informatics. The dedication, resilience and aspirations of the outstanding students within the Faculty of Computing and Informatics were celebrated. We often forget how much effort goes into excelling in...