Senior officials and experts from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) member states met through videoconference on 3 and 4 November 2021 to continue their negotiations on an updated and expanded Free Trade Agreement.
Despite disruptions to economic activities triggered by Covid-19, the local charcoal industry remains one of the growing industries in the country.
The Collective Agreement negotiated between the Construction Industries Federation of Namibia (CIF) and Metal and Allied Workers Union (MANWU), signed on 28 May 2021, has now been published in the Government Gazette (No. 7675) of 2 November 2021.
An article appearing in the Namibian Sun newspaper edition of 4 November 2021, titled “Shark Island: Uproar Over Concentration Campsite”, caused some consternation among members of the general population.
The Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA), together with its partners (African Union Commission (AUC), the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), held the Continental Africa Creates Jobs (ACJ) virtual conference on 3-4 November 2021. The theme of the continental dialogue was ‘Driving a responsive and agile skills and jobs agenda for economic growth for African Youth’.
A 31-year-old man is recuperating in the Oshakati Intermediate Hospital following a mob attack after he allegedly stabbed another man to death on Saturday in the Uuvudhiya area at around 18h00.
A devastating shack fire claimed the lives of a woman and her two grandchildren on Friday evening in Okombahe in the Erongo region.
A47-year-old woman from Five Rand location in Okahandja, who sells vetkoek, kapana and oshikundu to feed her six children, is pleading for public assistance after her house was gutted by fire last Tuesday.
Staffers of the Ekulo Senior Secondary School in the Oshikoto region have applauded Build it for the donation of a 5 000-litre water tank.
“People can protest in the streets but if you and I are not ready to join all those who speak out on GBV, we can call this nation a doomed nation,” she said while speaking at a GBV event in Aroab in the //Kharas region.