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Traditional leaders of the five Kavango tribes have threatened to thwart a planned demonstration of the Va Nyemba speaking people over their rejection of the decision by NBC to air an hour-long Nyemba language programme. 

E-sports is once again making great strides, as Namibia was invited to participate in the inaugural Southern Africa Region E-sports Championships, scheduled to take place from 3 to 4 December 2022 in Lilongwe, Malawi.

The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF), the largest pension fund in the country, procured land for the construction of a new N$38.3 million office complex at Ondangwa in the Oshana region. The fund held a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, 30 September 2022, paving the way for the construction of the new facility. 

The Livestock Producers’ Organisation (LPO) remains adamant that contract slaughtering at Meatco could significantly reduce operating costs at the State-owned enterprise, which would increase the sustainability of the business. 

Reconnaissance Energy Africa (Recon Africa), along with its joint venture partner, the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor), last week confirmed the target depth was reached at its third stratigraphic test well in the Kavango basin. 

Namibia Special Risks Insurance Limited (NASRIA) will soon unveil its much-anticipated new product, the Namibia Agriculture Insurance Scheme (NAIS), which will insure crop and livestock farmers against natural calamities sustainably. 

The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) released the results of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter of 2022, at a media briefing held on the 28 September 2022, //Kharas region.

In recent years, the term shrinkflation has become common in economics classes. This is a condition when a manufacturer of certain products reduces a product’s size and quantity while maintaining its current market price unchanged, leaving a consumer to pay the same amount for less. 

While poverty has forced the destitute and vulnerable to resort to scavenging at dumpsites in many towns and settlements, Otavi is hell-bent to address food security problems at household and national levels.

NUDO president Esther Utjiua Muinjangue says transgenerational trauma does not leave physical marks but psychological or emotional scars, which make it difficult to recognise, allowing the cycle to continue.