The Katima Mulilo Town Council has budgeted N$30 million to upgrade and refurbish three of the town’s roads in the next financial year. The identified streets, – a combined 3.1km long – are the Dr Hage Geingob, Richard Muhinda, and…

Deputy prime minister and minister of industries, mines and energy Natangwe Ithete says around 29 000 businesses are registered in thenorthern regions. This amounts to 14% of all registered businesses in Namibia, he says. The Oshana region leads, with nearly…

Deputy minister of education, innovation, youth, arts, and culture Dino Ballotti has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to ensuring that no child in Namibia attends school in makeshift structures. Speaking at a regional briefing with the directorate of education management in…

JSE-listed Boxer Retail created nearly 3 000 new jobs, in the 53 weeks to 2 March, after it opened more than 40 new stores and met the financial forecasts it had made to its investors on the JSE months ago.…

The biggest story in Zambezi this week was about Katima Mulilo councillors dubiously giving away 31 hectares (ha) (about 31 football fields) of prime riverbank land for two used cars, two new quad bikes, three second-hand quad bikes, a survey…

Trade unions and other experts have raised concern about South Africa’s unemployment rate rising to 32.9% in the first quarter of 2025 from 31.9% in the final quarter of 2024 . According to Statistics South Africa, youth unemployment is currently…

The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.– Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) We live IN the first truly global age. The politics of the post-Washington consensus with…

Please allow me to respond to an article published in Namibian Sun on 6 May under the heading ‘28 May Is Not the Date the Concentration Camps Were Ordered to Close’ by Mitiri Festus U Muundjua. Muundjua is a person…

It is imperative to delve deeper into the urgent need to enact the prevention and combating of torture bill and comprehensive police reform. The mantra of Namibia’s eighth administration is ‘Business Unusual’. It promises a departure from the status quo,…

Minister of health and social services Esperance Luvindao is leading a Namibian delegation at the Commonwealth Health Ministers’ Meeting in Geneva. The meeting, which was underway over the weekend, is being held under the theme ‘Investing in Health: Sustainable Financing…

Former first lady Monica Geingos says she was honoured by president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s invitation to attend a street renaming ceremony in Lusaka, Zambia. Two roads in the city were recently renamed – one in honour of founding president Sam Nujoma,…

The City of Windhoek has announced that its information and communication technology department will be conducting maintenance of its data centre this weekend, disrupting certain public services. These include the city’s website, applications section, e-portal, mayoral business forum, RedForce service,…