2021-04-30Edgar Brandt When the National Fishing Corporation of Namibia (Fishcor) was legally established on 27 December 1991, it was meant to pave the way for the establishment of strategic partnerships with new and established players in the industry to benefit from the vast resources of the country’s fisheries. View more
2021-05-03Edgar Brandt The Windhoek City Council last Thursday approved its ambitious Windhoek Economic Recovery Initiative (WERI) through which it aims to create a minimum of 5 000 new permanent jobs; increase the city’s contribution to the national GDP from 33% to 36%; and grow the city’s revenue to N$20 billion. View more
2021-05-05Edgar Brandt By the end of the 2020 financial year, Telecom Namibia had managed to increase fixed broadband service subscriptions by 14%, and in turn... View more
2021-05-07Edgar Brandt The establishment and operationalisation of NamRA is anticipated to significantly improve transparency in Namibia’s tax collection efforts. One of the major targets for NamRA is to increase the State’s revenue from the N$52 billion expected during the 2021/22 financial year. View more
2021-05-12Edgar Brandt Canadian miner ReconAfrica has moved to calm excitement around potential billions of barrels of oil while locals and environmentalists square up for a prolonged fight with the company. View more
2021-06-01Edgar Brandt Responding to the sudden resignation of three Meatco board members since Friday, public enterprises minister Leon Jooste said he has requested for the “actual” reasons for their abrupt departure. View more
2021-06-03Edgar Brandt The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) and the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) on Tuesday signed an agreement to exchange data and information together with knowledge and training to support agricultural trade research for evidence-based policy formulation. View more
2021-06-04Edgar Brandt With the liquidation of Air Namibia still reverberating, public enterprises minister Leon Jooste yesterday warned state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that the honeymoon is over when itcomes to government bailouts. View more
2021-06-07Edgar Brandt Bank of Namibia governor Johannes !Gawaxab on Thursday cautioned that the Namibian economy cannot afford another hard lockdown as this would be devastating for both jobs and businesses. View more
2021-06-11Edgar Brandt Finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi yesterday said he was concerned about the misrepresentation of national policy measures as conditionalities of the N$3.9 billion budget deficit financing loan arrangement Namibia secured from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in March this year. View more
2021-06-15Edgar Brandt The trade ministry is working on a policy to develop the informal sector and transform it to contribute more to the mainstream economy. View more
2021-06-17Edgar Brandt An official report launched last Friday by the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) found that while Namibia has made progress in reducing monetary poverty, more than 43.3% of the population still live in multidimensional poverty. View more
2021-06-18Edgar Brandt The City of Windhoek’s aspirations to become a smart city by 2022, which would entail major infrastructure reinvestment and modernisation, have been thwarted because there simply isn’t enough money. View more
2021-06-23Edgar Brandt The main engines of Debmarine Namibia’s new N$7 billion recovery vessel being constructed in Romania were started successfully for the first-time last month. View more
2021-06-30Edgar Brandt The private sector continues to help in the fight against the deadly pandemic as the country sees an escalation in the number of cases, hospitalisations and fatalities. View more
2021-07-01Edgar Brandt Two of Namibia’s biggest life insurance companies, Sanlam and Old Mutual, also moved quickly to reassure clients that they will continue to be covered without any specific vaccine exclusions. View more
2021-07-05Edgar Brandt The World Health Organisation (WHO) last week advised that the greater adoption of mobile payment innovations should be at the heart of preventive interventions aimed at reducing Africa’s burden of infectious diseases. View more
2021-07-14Edgar Brandt The vicious cycle of violence, death and looting that erupted in South Africa on Friday continued for a fifth day yesterday, compounding already contracted regional economic performance in the face of a devastating global pandemic. View more
2021-07-14Edgar Brandt Namibia’s entire life insurance industry has seen an escalation in Covid-related death claims, and Hollard Namibia is no exception. View more
2021-07-16Edgar Brandt Following a week of unrest in neighbouring South Africa, where protestors and looters have caused numerous deaths and millions of dollars in property damage, Windhoek shopping centre owners say they engaged their security service providers but do not expect any looting here. View more
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