Food insecurity in Namibia has dramatically increased, and hundreds of thousands of people in vulnerable communities need help. Vegetable gardening is an important method of securing a sustainable supply of nutritious food for a majority of communities, supported by organisations that Capricorn Group has partnered with through the Capricorn Foundation.
During their 2020/21 financial year, which ended in March 2021, the Agricultural Bank of Namibia (AgriBank) disbursed loans to the value of N$217 million, benefiting a total number of 1 301 customers.
Some of Namibia’s young future business leaders received a welcome boost when Sanlam announced the winners of its entrepreneurial support programme, the Sanlam Bridge, on Wednesday this week.
The lack of appropriate, particularly technical, education among school-going rural youth is the greatest single handicap to the development of self-employment in the rural setting.
History was made last week in the field of education when the international Kairos Movement opened its Africa sub-region Chapter which is in the interim housed at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
According to the English dictionary, factionalism means the splitting of a group into factions, or conflict between factions. This splitting could be of a group of ordinary people or political parties.
In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, talent management is gradually gaining traction on corporate boards internationally, prompting boards to reconsider talent management and its impact on corporate strategy.
The teaching of geology is that hydrocarbons are the result of deep burial of organic matter that got subjected to high temperature and pressure before they turn into hydrocarbons, including petroleum, during the carboniferous period more than 350 million years ago.
I start this article by cautioning against the dangers of false promises that no amount of explanation can justify. This warning is directed at our political leaders to be cautious when making public promises on land delivery because one day, the chickens will come home to roost.
Allow me to share my views on this platform. The anatomy of this piece is anchored on our replenished natural resources here in Namibia and elsewhere in the world. Our forests have been cut down, by us and by foreigners, to make the world we live in a better place.