A total of 23 artefacts of Namibian origin are expected to return to Namibia from Germany during the course of next year. This is part of an agreement between the Museum Association of Namibia and the Ethnological Museum of Berlin. Earlier this year several Namibian experts and German researchers had been at the Berlin museum […]

The German Historical Museum is in talks with Namibian arts and culture officials about the holding of a second symposium on the return of the Cape Cross column. The column which returned to Namibia in August this year was part of a permanent exhibition the museum hosted since 2005. Before its return, the German museum […]

A group of nine Namibians is on a tour of Germany on invitation by that country’s Federal Government’s Foreign Office. The tour, which started this week, included meetings with officials of the Federal Government Commissioner for Cultural Affairs and the Media, the German Historical Museum in Berlin and officials of the Ethnological Museum on the […]

Government will now save on costs when sending military personnel to other countries for basic training. This was said by President Hage Geingob when he inaugurated the Namibia Command and Staff College of Defence Force at Okahandja. President Geingob says the college is proof that government is committed to the development of world class training […]

President Geingob has proposed that the Namibia Command and Staff College of Defence Force auditorium be named after the famous Augustineum College. Geingob made the proposal after the Namibia Defence Force top brass wanted to honour him by naming the auditorium after him.

Labour experts from the public and private institutions are meeting in the capital to review the National Employment Policy. The policy aims to enhance labour-intensive growth path, the quality of employment and access to jobs for vulnerable groups.

Lack of access to finance, markets and entrepreneurship skills hamper SMEs’ development in Namibia. It is against this background that the Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Development, in collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), are rolling out EMPRETEC, […]

SWAPO has finally bowed to Section 77 of the Electoral Act. The Act disqualifies public office bearers from contesting for National Assembly seats and compels them to resign from their jobs, a decision that did not sit well with all political parties.

A multi-million-dollar mobile field hospital was inaugurated at the Okahandja Military School. The hospital is designed to provide medical services to the Namibian Defence Force members when deployed on United Nations peace support missions.

Political parties have been reminded that the submission of presidential candidates and members of the National Assembly ends on Friday.