2018-11-30Staff Report 2 For years, Namibia has been ranked as the 4th largest producer of uranium worldwide, behind only Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia. In 2012, for example, 7.1 percent of global uranium oxide supply came from Namibia. View more
2018-11-23Staff Report 2 Former liberation movements, who are currently ruling parties in six Southern African countries, have been meeting in Windhoek this week to exchange notes. View more
2018-11-16Staff Report 2 Waiting for the Namibian Football Association (NFA) to resolve its own issues – as ordered by the Namibia Sports Commission, government and, to some extent, Fifa – is like expecting a judge to sentence himself to a jail term after having transgressed. View more
2018-11-09Staff Report 2 It was great to see this week both the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) and sports minister Erastus Uutoni finally laying down the law on the dangerous happenings at the Namibia Football Association (NFA), whose bosses have been persistently in the news for all the wrong reasons imaginable. View more
2018-11-02Staff Report 2 This week New Era broke the news and published a front-page scoop on the water crisis at Rundu. Rundu has a debt of N$60 million with the national utility, NamWater, and residents of the town unfairly endure painful water rationing every other week that lasts for several hours a day. View more
2018-10-26Staff Reporter Government has come under heavy attack – mostly based on sheer ignorance and partisan politics – for the multi-billion dollar investment deal it struck with Russian company, Comsar. View more
2018-10-12Staff Report 2 The northern veterinary cordon fence, also known as the red line, is a proud legacy of apartheid and colonialism that continues to firmly maintain the very intent and purpose for which it was erected. View more
2018-10-05Staff Report 2 Twenty-eight years after independence, wealth in Namibia is still skewed along racial lines laid down in the colonial period. The level of inequality is one of the highest in the world, according to the World Bank. View more
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