Environment and tourism minister Pohamba Shifeta expressed concern that most of the country’s resources, specifically indigenous plant products, continue to be utilised for cosmetic or pharmaceutical purposes, without proper benefit-sharing arrangements.
Unemployed and unskilled young Namibians are not taking up apprenticeship opportunities to acquire skills in the wholesale and retail sector.
The dust around Swapo’s contentious seventh elective congress refuses to settle almost two weeks after it came to an end.
Re-elected Swapo vice president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has seemingly wrested control of the ruling party, with her loyalists and backers at the just ended elective congress decisively making up the majority of the executive structure.
Police chief Josef Shikongo warned on Tuesday that stock theft in the Otjozondjupa and Omaheke regions was on the verge of getting out of hand, and that it was up to "us" to stop it.
Double murder accused Ernst Josef Lichtenstrasser said he only confessed to the murders of two senior executives of the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology in Arandis because the police threatened to arrest his wife.
The Swakopmund municipality has managed to convince the High Court to set aside its management committee’s decision to appoint the second-best candidate for the position of general manager for corporate services and human capital.
Home affairs will need an estimated amount of N$140 million over a period of five years for the implementation of identified activities under its newly-launched migration policy.
A recently released criminal offender said while he was behind bars, he managed to acquire the two most important ingredients for a successful reentry into society; an education and a job.
A not-for-profit organisation to represent all former Namibian refugees was launched by about 100 people at Katutura Youth Complex, Windhoek over the weekend.