The City of Windhoek debt book has been swelling for the past years due to constrained revenue sources, but they had no choice but to render services to city dwellers.
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Namibia-Africa trade deficit widens …needs to take advantage of AfCFTA
Namibia’s trade deficit with the rest of Africa widened from N$3.8 billion in August 2021 to N$4.4 billion in September 2021.
Opinion – Special focus: Church and state in Namibia
With the demise of apartheid, the Namibian churches are realising that there are other issues confronting society. These other issues have been neglected.
Opinion – Rural policing in Namibia: The next chapter
Notwithstanding the overwhelming ‘man-created policing challenges and excruciating rural livelihoods’, the opportunity exists for rural policing in Namibia to rise to the occasion and deliver much-needed and inclusive policing services to rural communities, thus assuming the next chapter in the country’s policing journey.
Opinion – Economy is crippled by fiscal structures
The Namibian economy is being crippled from multiple facets, which include the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the presence of fiscal structures and rating agency economic downgrades.
Opinion – PPPs can support economic development
After independence, Namibian government pursued state-led economic development strategies based on import substitution, which was considered to be the key to rapid industrialisation and modernisation
Opinion – The plight of maize farmers in Zambezi
The Silozi Service of Radio RSA (Republic of South Africa) in the 1980s ran a programme called, “Caprivi Sizuma saLico, “literally meaning “Caprivi, the Breadbasket.”
Opinion – Forebears of pan-Africanism turning in their graves
The mob tied the identified innocent foreigner’s hands and legs with ropes.
Letter – Unlock the potential of vocational training
There are jobs in Namibia but, Namibians are not competent enough to occupy these jobs.
Letter – Improve education by taking it into the public domian
In accordance with a cabinet decision of 9/17 June 2001/2014, the government of the Republic of Namibia abolished the mandatory payment of school development funds to schools by 2016.
