The first Air Namibia flight for the Walvis Bay-Ondangwa route landed at the Walvis Bay International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. The ERJ 135 aircraft carried 25 passengers from Ondangwa to the harbour town in less than an hour. Flights will be operated on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays for a charge of N$2 000 return. Marketing […]

Zimbabwe’s parliament has passed a motion to impeach President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday. A nine member committee has been selected to work out the modalities for Mugabe’s exit and is expected to report back to parliament by Wednesday. After the committee’s report to the house, the Speaker is the expected to notify Mugabe of the […]

The Head of Department at !Nara Primary School, Baddy Visagie has called on residents of the Tutaleni informal settlement at Walvis Bay to stop vandalising school property.

Houses constructed under the mass housing project at Karasburg still remain unoccupied. The councillor for the Karasburg west constituency, Dennis Coetzee said the residents are simply unable to afford the houses. Out of the 155 houses built under the mass housing programme, only 48 have thus far been handed over to beneficiaries. While 107 houses […]

Ratings agency, Fitch has downgraded Namibia to junk status. The agency rated Namibia’s long term foreign currency issuer default rating to BB+ from BBB-, with a stable outlook. The downgrade of the long-term foreign-currency reflects weaker than forecast fiscal outcomes. The ratings agency also projects that public debt-to-GDP will continue to rise over the medium […]

The most anticipated awards of the year, for business people, took place at the Safari Court where Namibia’s most innovative businesses were honoured.

Employees of Gondwana Collection Namibia will now be shareholders of the company following the allocation of shares to them. The allocation follows the transformation of Gondwana Holding Limited into a public company.

The Henties Bay-Swakopmund road upgrade project is well on track, despite criticism of poor working conditions and the importing of labour from other areas. The Roads Authority (RA) is upgrading the road from a salt to a tarred road. Once completed in September 2019, the road will link Swakopmund and Henties Bay to Uis, Khorixas […]

Visitors to Diaz Cross in Luderitz are unable to access the original Diaz Cross site which was declared a national monument in 1973.

Namibia’s Brave Warriors have been drawn in Group B alongside Zambia, Uganda and Ivory Coast for the African Nations Championship. The African Nations Championship is the Confederation of African Football’s nations cup version for home-based players, who otherwise always face stiff competition for places in their respective national teams. It is a vigorous competition during […]