Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr Esperance Luvindao, says the directive by the Head of State to shift civil servants’ medical care from private facilities to State hospitals is set to create at least 2 000 jobs within the health sector. According to the minister, more than 2 000 additional health personnel posts were...
The leader of the Popular Democratic Movement, McHenry Venaani, yesterday pressed President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah to urgently prioritise transparency in the country’s booming petroleum sector to tackle joblessness and lack of housing. With Namibia on the brink of its first oil production and youth unemployment estimated at over 40%, Venaani described his meeting with the President...
Bravery Kabula Heather Erdmann For street vendors Sondaha Nella and Johannes Kanyenga, whose survival is solely anchored on selling sweets, fruits, vegetables and other household perishables in the busy streets of Windhoek CBD, trading has become an intricate two interwoven contradiction. Kanyenga, Nella and dozens of other street vendors who operate in the vicinity of...
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said over 700 jobs were created during the 2025/26 financial year alone following the launch of the National Youth Development Fund (NYDF), to support youth-owned enterprises. Nandi-Ndaitwah outlined these achievements when she tabled Namibia’s First Progress Report on the implementation of the National Programme of Action on Youth Unemployment at the African...
Isabel Bento SWAKOPMUND – Omaruru constituency councillor, Hendrina Gebhardt, has described the imminent opening of a Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) centre in the constituency as a breakthrough for young people. This, she said, is because they have long struggled to access post-school opportunities. In a recent interview with Nampa, Gebhardt said the facility,...
Adolf Kaure The chairperson of the University of Namibia (Unam) Alumni Association executive committee, Alisa Amupolo, said that they aspire to branch out their network internationally. Amupolo said this during the association’s welcoming event held at the main campus in Windhoek on Friday. The ‘New Year’s Toast’ was held to introduce the new executive committee...
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has tasked Namibia’s newly appointed High Commissioner to India to aggressively promote trade, investment and economic cooperation as the country pushes to accelerate development under Vision 2030. The President on Monday commissioned Wing Commander (Rtd) Alex Tukuhupwele as Namibia’s High Commissioner to India, describing the appointment as an “assumption of national duty”...
Auleria Wakudumo Director of National Heritage and Culture Manfred !Gaeb has called on communities to work together to preserve and promote indigenous languages, saying they carry identity, history and traditional knowledge. He made these remarks during the International Mother Language Day commemoration held in the Guinas constituency in Oshikoto region on Monday. The two-day event...
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has challenged Independent Patriots for Change leader Panduleni Itula to produce empirical evidence linking the first family to Namibia’s upstream oil sector instead of blowing hot air. The president made these averments in a statement late yesterday. It followed Itula’s earlier accusations that Nandi-Ndaitwah misled the nation when she said none of...
RUNDU – Kavango East governor Hamunyera Hambyuka on Monday announced that the central government has officially greenlit a massive N$108 million injection to tackle Rundu’s Tutungeni suburb’s dangerous stormwater and erosion crises. This is in response to the growing sinkholes that have threatened to swallow homes and vital infrastructure in the riverfront town. “We got...