The Native Small Traders Association-NASTA in the Zambezi Region has called on foreign vendors flooding the streets of Katima Mulilo to stop the practice, as it is against Namibian laws. NASTA governs street trading at Katima Mulilo, where vendors are often at loggerheads with the Katima Mulilo Town Council, which accuses them of dirtying the […]

Twenty-one young Namibians are on their way to represent the country in former U.S president Barack Obama’s flagship young African leaders Initiative. The 2017 Mandela Washington Fellowship brings together at least 1000 young leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa, in the United States with the aim of empowering them through leadership training, academic coursework and networking.

About 30 employees from Africa Security Company, tasked with guarding offices of the directorate of education, and schools at Keetmanshoop are demanding answers from the company’s owners, for a delay in paying their salaries. The workers claim they still have not received this month’s salary, which was due to them at the beginning of May. […]

Communities positively engaged in public hearings that were held in all 14 regions of the country, over the past few weeks, to discuss the Namibian Time Bill. Following tabling of the Namibian Time Bill in the National Assembly by the Home Affairs and Immigration Ministry, public input into the process has been significant.

Communities in the Kavango East region continue to show poor interest in parliamentary standing committee visits, a trend that one Member of Parliament has blamed on poor information dissemination as well as public frustration. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resources and Community Development is one of three parliamentary standing committees that visited the Kavango […]

Referee assistant Vistoria Shangula is said to be heading in the right direction to become a top match official and represent Namibia at international competitions. This was said by Namibia Football Association (NFA) referees administrator Absalom Goseb. According to Goseb, Shangula has been in the referee’s development structures for four years and the 25-year-old is […]

The Khomas Youth League is an ongoing football league that develops players from the under nine age group all the way up to under seventeen. The Youth League has been in existence since 2004 and is being played during school days throughout the year. According to the Khomas Youth League chairman, Lazarus Xoagub, they decided […]

Although there are policies, programmes and laws on mental health in the country, this component is severely neglected and in need of a dire progressive approach. Health and Social Services deputy minister, Juliet Kavetuna, says mental health care in Namibia needs a comprehensive approach as it is neglected.

The majority of SADC countries still lag behind in terms of research and innovation, with the only exception being South Africa. This was confirmed by former President of the ‘Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association’ – SARIMA – Dr Jose Jackson-Malete.

The Namibian film industry is slowly picking up the pace. The Namibian Series “The Third Will” is set to air on DSTV’s Zambezi Magic Channel this coming June.