The High-Level Panel on the Namibian Economy (HLPNE) is working on a report on unemployment it will hand over to President Hage Geingob. HLPNE has found institutional disconnect, lack of incentives for local companies and skills mismatch as catalysts for a 34% national unemployment rate and more than 40% youth unemployment rate. The panel held […]

Fourth-year diesel mechanic students at the Namibia Institute of Mining and Technology Southern Campus have expressed dissatisfaction over the alleged sub-standard training they are receiving. The students in a petition said that their final year trade test training was compromised by the principal when he allegedly assigned an unqualified instructor to train them.

The trial of six people accused of assaulting former Governor of Omusati late Nangolo Mukwiilongo, who later succumbed to his injuries, started in the Oshakati High Court. It is alleged that the robbers attacked Mukwiilongo who was 92 years old then at his home village Elim in April 2017. The robbers assaulted Mukwiilongo by hitting […]

The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry has authorised timber that was already harvested before the July moratorium on timber cutting in the Kavango East and West and Zambezi regions to be transported to wood factories within Namibia.