The continued growth of informal settlements remains one of Namibia’s biggest developmental challenges. In this vein, FirstRand Namibia yesterday presented an investment of N$5 million for the country’s land and housing programme, through the Development Workshop of Namibia.
Cleanergy Solutions Namibia, a joint venture between the Ohlthaver and List (O&L) Group and its international Belgium-based partner CMB.TECH, has been awarded a JCOI/PTX grant, which supports the company to set up a Hydrogen pilot plant and refuelling station along the Namibian coast.
The Acting Minister of Public Enterprises Ipumbu Shiimi this week confirmed the appointment of the TransNamib Board of Directors. The appointments at the State-owned rail and freight operator were undertaken in accordance with the Public Enterprises Governance Act.
Namibia hopes to gain valuable experience and skills for its burgeoning oil industry by tapping into the knowledge of Equatorial Guinea, where Mobil Oil (now ExxonMobil) discovered the elusive black gold more than 25 years ago.
The economic and other relations between developed and developing countries established and maintained over centuries can be fully comprehended within the metropole – satellite pattern. The developed countries are the metropole, while the developing countries are satellites orbiting around the metropole.
It seems the quest for a paramount chief in the Zambezi region is still on the cards, and it is only that this time around it is being aired on social media through video clips by a secret cult organisation whose members are operating from Botswana, Namibia and Zambia. The members of this secret cult happen to belong to the Masubiya ethnic group.
Well-coached and grounded postgraduate students are aware that good academic writing style is achieved also by basing their arguments on credible sources or researches of scholars in their areas of specialisations.
Land management is a broad measure for strengthening the quality of life of people (and their environment) through improvements in the state of land.
In 2006, I enrolled for my first degree at the University of Namibia. The Dean of Students was current higher education minister Itah Kandjii-Murangi. Because of my high school student leadership background, I took keen interest in student politics. In that year, there was a thorny issue of compulsory breakfast, where the university charged students even when they did not eat breakfast.
Andrew Heywood (2007) defined politics as the game of power and exercise of authority to make collective decisions.