Chelva Wells Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture Sanet Steenkamp has announced a N$1.3 billion budget allocation for her ministry, dedicated to youth empowerment and development. She announced on Tuesday during her presentation of the Vote 27 budget for the 2025/26 financial year in the National Assembly that it reflects the government’s...
Seasoned executive and former presidential advisor on constitutional affairs and private sector interface Inge Zaamwani has landed what many opine is the biggest ministerial portfolio in terms of contribution to GDP. Yesterday, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah appointed her as a non-voting member of the National Assembly. She then appointed Zaamwani as the new minister of Agriculture,...
OKONGO – A group of Okongo homeowners say they are victims of a failed housing project which has forced them into a financial stranglehold. They are now paying mortgage instalments on incomplete, unoccupied houses while still forking out rent elsewhere. The residents of Block 103 remain stuck in a cruel limbo, paying for roofs over...
Lahja Nashuuta The government has constructed 957 housing units across the country during the 2024/2025 financial year through different initiatives. The initiatives include the Mass Housing Development Programme, the Build Together Programme and the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN). This was revealed by Urban and Rural Development minister Sankwasa James Sankwasa while motivating the...
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will undertake her first working visit to Angola today. The visit ends tomorrow, presidential spokesperson Alfredo Hengari confirmed. It marks Nandi-Ndaitwah’s first officiate engagement outside Namibia. The visit will be her first to her Angolan counterpart João Lourenço since assuming office on 21 March 2025. It aims to reinforce the historic and...
Rudolf Gaiseb The Reims Cessna F406 Caravan II, which crashed a year ago, killing three people in Windhoek’s Pioneerspark residential area, was not equipped with a black box. The deadly crash occurred on 3 May 2024. It resulted in the loss of life of Rozanne de Beer-Olivier (33), the pilot-in-command, who joined Westair in 2017....
Affirmative Repositioning (AR) Member of Parliament Vaino Hangula has called on minister of Works and Transport Veikko Nekundi to include former Air Namibia employees in the process of establishing and operating a new national airline. Air Namibia was closed down and liquidated in 2021 due to financial hardships after years of financial losses and accumulation...
Lahja Nashuuta The tourism ministry has allocated N$346 million towards the wildlife and protected area management programme for the 2025/2026 financial year. This programme focuses on national park management, wildlife protection, human-wildlife conflict mitigation and Namibia’s Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) Programme. Motivating the budget in Parliament, minister Indileni Daniel said for the 2024/2025 financial...
Lahja Nashuuta As Namibia prepares for Regional Councils and Local Authority elections later this year, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) needs N$648 million to pull off the exercise. Motivating the ECN budget in Parliament, National Assembly Speaker Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila announced that N$70 million of the proposed budget will go toward personnel expenses, while N$578.5...
Rudolf Gaiseb The health ministry needs N$11.5 billion for medical supplies. This includes clinical services, prioritising the replacement of outdated equipment and expansion of specialities. A total of N$12.3 billion was allocated for the ministry this financial year. Motivating the budget in Parliament on Tuesday, health minister Dr Esperance Luvindao said despite global disruptions, the...