Dutch beer brewing giant Heineken International intends to keep the Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL) brand as it is and further increase employment by localising production. The top management of Heineken and NBL paid a courtesy call on President Hage Geingob at State House. Heineken International last month concluded the acquisition of the majority shares in […]

Metcalfe Beukes Attorneys is calling on the Bank of Namibia (BoN) to intervene in how commercial banks deal with defaulting home loan holders. In a letter directed to the Governor of the Central Bank, Attorney Richard Metcalfe accused commercial banks of economically enslaving defaulters and ignoring relief measures provided for by the Bank of Namibia. […]

Messages of congratulations started pouring in ahead of the coronation of King Charles III and his wife Camilla tomorrow as king and queen of the United Kingdom. Speaker of the National Assembly Professor Peter Katjavivi says the coronation of King Charles III marks a new chapter for the commonwealth family. This will be the first […]

A grandmother of a child with a disability in Rundu’s Sauyemwa Informal Settlement is finding it tough to raise her grandson. Mariana Sindano says she has been looking after the now nine-year-old child since birth. The grandmother says Mathias Mingandja was born with a brain defect that stunted his growth and affected his arms and […]

Residents of Uvhungu-Vhungu and Mutengo Mukuru villages now have clean water following the drilling of boreholes in the area. About a month ago, the nbc News team visited the village, and people were complaining that they had not seen visible development, particularly the provision of water, since independence. They fetch water from the river at […]

The president of TUCNA has called on the government to hold employers accountable and to ensure sound labour relations at workplaces, especially in the fishing industry. Paulus Hango made this call during the Worker’s Day commemoration at Walvis Bay. While calling on the government to introduce a national minimum wage, Hango also accused the Ministry […]

A Canadian oil and gas exploration company, ReconAfrica, continues to face negative publicity from civil society groups regarding its drilling activities in the Kavango Basin. Among the allegations, the Economic and Social Justice Trust (ESJT) includes the company’s failure to find the oil it promised, as evidence shows there was never any realistic prospect of […]

Works and Transport Deputy Minister Veikko Nekundi had a series of familiarisation visits at NATIS offices and facilities in the Oshana and Omusati regions. He also made a stopover at the Tsandi-Omugulugwombashe gravel road, which is vital as it leads to the Omungulu-Gwombashe national heritage site, where the first shot to commence the armed liberation […]

The Minister of Industrialization and Trade, Lucia Iipumbu, has described Namibia’s participation at the 53rd General Assembly of the World Trade Centre Association in Accra, Ghana, as a success. The event was held in Africa for the first time, and the participation of many countries on the continent, including Namibia, has made it all the […]

A young entrepreneur from Gobabis has called on other unemployed youth to come up with businesses rather than waiting to be employed. Sheirly Katuuo made this call when the nbc News team visited her chicken project in the town.   The 36-year-old Sheirly Katuuo says owning a chicken project is something she has been dreaming […]