UUVUDHIYA – Northern communal farmers, particularly from Uuvudhiya constituency, have been urged to take necessary precautions to avoid further spreading of veld fires that have destroyed grazing and property over the past few weeks. The warning comes from concerned councillors, farmers and traditional leaders in the Oshana and Omusati regions, where veld fires have been...
Rudolf Gaiseb Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said bureaucracy in State-owned enterprises (SOEs) delays Namibia’s progress. She recommended that these businesses adopt new approaches to speed up economic transformation. “The purpose of SOEs was to get rid of bureaucracy to speed up the economic transformation of our country from a colonial economy to an economy that...
OMANDONGO – While President Nangolo Mbumba is adamant that churches are safe havens where people gather not only to worship but to support one another, creating a strong sense of community and belonging, he also warned against the mushrooming of unregulated houses of worship. Mbumba, while addressing members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia...
Lahja Nashuuta In the face of adversity in the form of perennial droughts, high unemployment, malnutrition and limited business prospects, the Khorixas Vocational Training Centre is seen as a beacon of hope by many in Kunene, a region considered among the poorest in Namibia. Due to a short supply of qualified artisans, it is great...
NAUTE DAM – Namibia Industrial Development Agency (Nida) employees stationed at the entity’s Naute Dam irrigation project outside Keetmanshoop, have stuck to their guns and say they won’t return to work until their demands for salary increments have been met. The employees through their union, the Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau), have been...
Despite a strong negative perception from the public and lawmakers to toll roads as a revenue-generating option to maintain the national road network, the Road Fund Administration remains adamant that tolling is the answer. The alternative, the RFA cautions, would be a rapid deterioration of the national road infrastructure. “The country’s infrastructure is ageing, and...
Aletta Shikololo Otniel Hembapu The Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) has created a platform where party presidential candidate Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will engage with young people, instead of participating in “foreign” presidential debates with her opponents. The platform, dubbed ‘Youth in Conversation with Netumbo’, is slated to start in Rundu this month, and will be held...
Namibian authorities find themselves between a rock and hard place. While they face a data gap dilemma to decide whether to proceed with uranium mining in the Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System (STAS), drilling to obtain the requisite data has been put on ice. It is a catch-22 situation, if information contained in a recent report,...
Rudolf Gaiseb Perennial political survivor Vincent Kanyetu yesterday launched the newest political kid on the block: the Action Democratic Movement (ADM). Kanyetu is ADM’s interim president. He needs no introduction to the local political theatre. He previously served as secretary general (SG) for the DTA, the precursor of the Popular Democratic Movement. He went on...
Over 600 employees of the Namibia Industrial Development Agency (Nida) rejected a 5.4% once-off payment proposal by their management. This follows negotiations held on Wednesday between the Nida management and Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union representatives after regional and headquarters’ staff downed tools on Wednesday. Shop-steward Marvin Tjikongo said wage and employment conditions demands...