The Namibia Broadcasting Corporation’s executive management is on a fact-finding mission in ||Kharas Region to explore the possibilities of hosting both the 2024 Miss Namibia and Miss Teen pageants at Luderitz. The executive management, led by nbc’s Chief News and Programming Officer Menesia Muinjo, met with the Luderitz Waterfront Development Company management as well as […]
A newly released report by the Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform has recommended that the government declare a drought a national emergency. This follows the effects of drought findings across the country due to low rainfall. The assessment was conducted in the seven major northern communal drop-producing regions between February 12 and March […]
|Khomas Governor Laura McLeod-Katjirua has called on its administrators to ensure that development initiatives from partnership agreements bear the intended fruits. The governor made these remarks during a work plan signing agreement between the |Khomas Region and Jiangsu Province of China. The joint work plan comes as a result of two MoUs, signed in 2015 […]
The Rehoboth community and representatives of Namibia’s sports fraternity came out in numbers to attend a memorial service in honour of a father, his two sons, and a close friend who died in a fatal road crash near the town last Saturday. Hundreds of people gathered at the Dr. Lemmer High School sports fields as […]
A lecturer at the University of Namibia’s (UNAM) Environmental Science Department says despite legislation on improving the benefits for Namibian producers from natural resources, the actual sharing of the benefits remains unsatisfactory. Ndapewa Nakanyete said this during her research presentation on Rich Resources from Poor Communities: An Analysis of Namibia’s Access and Benefit-Sharing Legislation at […]
The President of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Martin Lukato, has called on the youth to take part in the up-coming national elections. Lukato made the appeal at a media briefing at Rundu. ‘The youth are the majority; they can change the political landscape of this country if they could vote wisely by voting NDP […]
Hundreds of hippos are stranded and trapped in the mud waters along the Chobe and Linyanti rivers in the Zambezi Region. The river received low rainfall this year compared to previous years. Most parts of the Chobe and Linyanti rivers bordering Botswana and Namibia’s Zambezi Region have started drying up due to insufficient rainfall. In […]
The Kunene Vocational Training Centre is expected to open for its first intake in June. This was announced by the Namibia Training Authority’s TVET Standards Manager, Amon Haufiku, during a consultative meeting with the community at Khorixas. Although construction at the centre is not yet fully completed, Haufiku said about 100 trainees and staff members […]
The Deputy Mayor of the City of Windhoek, Joseph Uapingene, has labelled the Katutura Residents Committee (KRC) as “ungrateful” and their demands as “inhumane.” Since mid-2023, the group KRC has been at loggerheads with the Windhoek City Council and its administrators over the appointment of a debt collector. The group has been demanding that the […]
Windhoek-born Annina van Neel is set to showcase a documentary shedding light on the practice of slavery in the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena. The island is said to be the site of thousands of burial grounds belonging to formerly enslaved Africans. The documentary, titled “A Story of Bones,” through poignant storytelling, questions whether […]
