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Following a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Debmarine Namibia, in collaboration with the Namibia Schools Sports Union (NSSU), yesterday relaunched the ‘Bridging the Gap’ initiative.

Finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi will undertake stakeholders consultative meetings on mid-term budget review to northern regions.

An expected increase in the repo rate by the Bank of Namibia (BoN) will weigh heavily on indebted households who already battle with higher living costs, as real disposable incomes deteriorate with rising inflation. This is as the South African Reserve Bank recently hiked its repo rate by 75 basis points (bps) in July, with further tightening expected. 

Mining commissioner Erasmus Shivolo said if it is found the proposed in-situ leach uranium mining process in the Stampriet Artesian Basin (SAB) area will harm the aquifer, the project will be stopped. 

It is early morning in the Nyae Nyae Conservancy – and the fire, as always, belongs to the elders – but for the second day running, the talk at this fire has been on gender equality among the San people. 

Opposition parties in parliament have expressed solidarity with more than 43 000 “forgotten” civil servants, who last week overwhelmingly voted for a nationwide strike.

The Gobabis municipality, struggling to provide basic services to residents, is paying six suspended senior managers millions while they sit idle at home, waiting to be charged for over a year.

The Swapo Party Youth League will conclude its regional conferences this weekend, which will determine, among others delegates to the wing’s congress, which is slated for 17 August. 

TransNamib workers will take to the polls to decide whether they will strike after failed salary negations.

The education ministry and its stakeholders are gathering to review the resolutions and directives of the 2011 national conference on education along with resolutions from the regional consultations in 2022.