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The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) has increased pension benefits by 5.46% from the 4.62% increase for 2022/2023. The pension benefit increase is effective 01 April 2023 for all GIPF pensioners. 

Huawei yesterday kicked off its 20th annual Global Analyst Summit (HAS) in Shenzhen, China. The summit was attended by more than 1 000 industry analysts,

The European Union (EU)-funded twinning project, titled ‘Providing support to the Namibia Standards Institution (NSI)’, together with its partners and the industrialisation and trade ministry, on Tuesday hosted the first-ever EU/Namibia Quality Infrastructure Forum in Windhoek.

Senegal - A teenage girl who had to quit school and her job due to a painful, ‘inoperable’ tumour on the side of her face has had life-changing surgery from a charity.

Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona has carried out the world’s first fully robotic lung transplant using a minimally invasive technique that does not require cutting through bone.

There is a great push for countries to legalise issues such as abortion on demand and LGBTQI under the guise of human rights. 

African wildlife’s destruction was sealed when British popstars, comedians and animal rights groups fundraising industry NGOs recently influenced their parliamentarians to vote for the hunting trophies imports ban bill, totally ignoring the harm it causes to African wildlife and habitat conservation. 

The trial of a Namibian man, who allegedly operated a Ponzi scheme and is accused of defrauding 79 persons to the tune of N$4.3 million, returned to court this week after a hiatus of several months.

ONGWEDIVA – A security guard was recently arrested for stealing food items from a school kitchen, which he then sent with a bus to his girlfriend’s house.