A N$70 million fish processing plant has been inaugurated by Fisheries and Marine Resources Minister Derek Klazen at Walvis Bay. The factory is the third one that the Merlus Group of Companies has set up in the harbor town. According to the Merlus Cormorant Fishing Director, the journey of building a factory started years ago, […]
The Minister of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform, Calle Schlettwein, says that the completion of the second phase of the Neckartal Dam Irrigation Scheme on the outskirts of Keetmanshoop in the ||Kharas Region has the capacity to provide more than 10,000 employment opportunities. Schlettwein was answering questions during a consultative meeting with stakeholders in the […]
Acting Divisional Magistrate Stanley Tembwe from the Keetmanshoop Regional Court has sentenced Aroab Sebastiaan Abrahams to 10 years imprisonment for raping a minor girl. Abrahams is said to have lured a six-year-old girl to the veld, where he raped her. He committed the offense at the age of 15 in Aroab Village in the ||Kharas […]
The gap in the number of girls missing school because of menstruation seems to be narrowing as more actors join the bandwagon, reaching out to rural places. End Period Poverty and Africa Connection is one of those that reached out by donating sanitary towels to the Baumgartsbrunn Primary School in the Windhoek Rural Constituency. For […]
Construction work at the Keetmanshoop Vocational Training Center (KVTC) came to a standstill after workers of the Shanxi Construction and Investment Group downed tools. The workers say they downed tools because the company’s management allegedly ignores their grievances, which include outstanding payments and a lack of protective gear. Denzel Stoffel is a shopsteward at the […]
The Chairperson of the Namibia Travel and Tourism Forum, Nrupesh Soni, has advised the government to increase its budget allocation to the tourism sector this year for the industry’s speedy recovery. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council report of 2022, the travel and tourism industry contributed more than N$19.4 million to Namibia’s GDP […]
The Swapo Party Central Committee held a meeting in Windhoek on Saturday. In his rather brief speech, President Hage Geingob called on party members to desist from spreading rumors. The meeting was to elect leaders for various portfolios. Swapo Party Central Committee gathered for their first meeting for the year, where both the party’s veterans […]
Work on the Olufuko Center, where the 33rd Independence Day celebrations will take place on the 21st of March, is progressing well. Omusati Governor Erginus Endjala is confident celebrations will boost the economy of the town and region at large. It’s a busy time for the town and region at large as Outapi town prepares […]
Once fully operational, the envisaged 5,000-hectare irrigation scheme at Neckartal Dam, on the outskirts of Keetmanshoop, will provide sufficient produce for not only the domestic market but exports as well. The government invested N$5 billion in the construction of the Neckartal Dam, making it the biggest investment the government has ever made in the ||Kharas […]
The Executive Director of the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation (MIRCO), Penda Naanda, is calling on senior officials to re-dedicate themselves to ensure that the over 130 joint decisions taken to strengthen bilateral cooperation are implemented timely. Naanda addressed the closing of the third session of the Namibia-South Africa Bi-National Commission in the […]
