Security guards are threatening to go on strike at the end of November, leaving public and private property unguarded, if their demands are not met by then. Unions organising the security sector held a joint media briefing in Windhoek today to discuss progress made in on-going negotiations for better wages. The General-Secretary of the Namibia […]

More than 13 million people in the SADC region are at risk of food insecurity as a result of the recurring drought. As such, five countries Namibia, Angola, Botswana, South Africa and Zambia have pledged to collaborate to reduce the impact of climate change.

Majority of pregnant women and single mothers at Swakopmund’s Democratic Resettlement Community, DRC live in poverty. The absence of fathers of their unborn babies and children is compounding their struggle to survive.

Many young people in the //Karas Region have commended government for creating an enabling environment to do business. This came to light at the second day of the //Karas regional development seminar underway at Keetmanshoop.

Government continues to rope in major international investment partners to scale-up its industrial plans. President Hage Geingob informed the Vice-President of the European Investment Bank, Bim van Ballekom that Namibia remained a credit worthy country.

The Swapo Party policy conference currently underway in Windhoek will discuss new proposals to Swapo party ideology. Following a landslide victory in the 2014 Presidential and General Assembly elections, the President says SWAPO need not to lose touch with the voters and the manifesto, a basis on which the party was voted into power.

It has been more than three months since Jonas Junius Jonas was arrested in Brazil. Jonas has been charged for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a Brazilian house maid at the Athletes Village in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympic games in August. The complainant claimed in her statement that the boxer had offered her […]

KLM Royal Dutch Airline first flight between Windhoek and Amsterdam, touched down at the Hosea Kutako International Airport on Monday. Windhoek is KLM’s twelfth destination in Africa. The airline already flies to Luanda, Johannesburg and Cape Town, Nairobi, Kilimanjaro and Dar es Salaam among other routes.

Former learners of the Kolin Foundation Secondary School at Arandis raised 150 000 dollars at a gala dinner and launched a trust fund to collect more money. The Kolin Foundation Secondary School has produced some of Namibia’s politicians, social and business leaders.

With escalating electricity prices, many Namibians are opting for gas stoves and fridges which is cheaper, but are they well informed about the safety precautions needed to operate gas powered household appliances. This question of safety measures in the use of gas fired household appliances has come to the fore after a gas cylinder explosion […]