Workers at TransNamib are up in arms over pension money deducted from them monthly, which the company failed to pay over to the pension administrator since May 2021.
National
Census to employ 11 500 enumerators
The National Population and Housing Census, conducted every decade by the Namibia Statistics Agency, will require some 11 500 enumerators for it to be successful.
Rundu fails to spend N$5 million to improve roads
The Road Fund Administration has expressed disappointment in the Rundu Town Council for failing to make use of the N$5.5 million allocated to them to improve the town’s decaying roads.
DNA test backlog delays death certificates
The families of 15 people who died instantly in a horrific accident in December are in limbo as the police are unable to test the charred remains for DNA due to insufficient funds.
Opinion – What a happy life? Count your blessings
A philosopher friend remarked recently: “God must really love unhappy people, otherwise He wouldn’t have made so many of them”.
Opinion – Prepare for business growth opportunities
It’s never too late to take up any opportunity or a chance when it comes, as it may not come again.
Opinion – Covid survivor testimony: Appraisal of Namibia’s response
I contracted Covid-19 sometime in mid-December 2021, and started getting sick around Christmas time.
Opinion – Achieving learning support in schools
Learning Support is defined as a team, consisting of teachers ensuring the subject/class teacher offers needed support to learners while working in consultation and collaboration with them.
Opinion – Higher education faces ‘pirate’ crisis
At face value, it appears that Namibia has stellar institutions of higher learning contributing towards its aspirations of an educated citizenry able to compete globally with first world countries.
Opinion – Parliamentary committee prejudice during abortion hearings
In October 2021, the parliamentary standing committee on Gender Equality, Social Development and Family Affairs finally began the process of conducting public hearings on the legalisation/non-legalisation of the abortion law some (25) years since the first abortion draft bill was presented in parliament in 1996.






