With Grade 12 results out on Thursday, matriculants will be desperate to secure space for themselves at institutions of higher learning. Students be warned though… bogus and fly-by night institutions are lurking in the shadows, seeking to milk parents’ hard-earned money. One such questionable school that the NBC came across is called Impact Training Institute, […]
Some residents of Kalkrand Village have raise concerns over lack of employment and youth empowerment. Residents shared some of their concerns with the NBC News team during a visit to the village.
Former freedom fighter Francis Kooper pays tribute to the late Petrus Iilonga.
The Labour Commissioner Henry Kaasen has not yet responded to the demands made by the Namibian Wildlife Resort’s (NWR) employees to issue them with the strike rules by close of business on Tuesday. NWR employees received a certificate of unresolved dispute on 8 November and has since been waiting on the Labour Commissioner to issue […]
Since Local Authority elections were held in 2015, women have featured prominently on the Swakopmund Town Council, with four being councillors. Swapo’s Daphne Nashilundo has been re-elected as Swakopmund’s Mayor for 2019, while Maria Elago retained her position as deputy mayor. Female leadership representation is nothing new to this Town Council since 2003, when Rosina […]
The Namibian Student Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) recently released a progress update regarding the refund payments for beneficiaries. The Ministry of Higher Education, Training and Innovation as well as the Ministry of Finance will effect the N$2 000 payments. NOTE: We have removed the picture of former NSFAF chairperson Patty Karuaihe-Martin that was inadvertently initially […]
Out of the 44 863 candidates who sat for 2018 examinations, 23 911 learners qualified for admission to Grade 11 for 2019. This represent a 53,3% pass rate compared to the 55,3% of 2017.
President Hage Geingob has removed Dr Bernard Haufiku as minister of Health and Social Services. Dr Haufiku is replaced by the Deputy Associate Dean of the Unam School of Medicine, Dr Kalumbi Shangula. Dr Shangula served as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Social Services and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Environment […]
Peter Ekanda Iilonga was born in 1947 in Etilyasa in the Omusati Region. His political career started in 1973 when at the age of 26 he went into exile where he received military training. Mutsegwateka, which can loosely be translated as “Broken Head” returned home in 1974 to a cesspool created by the South African […]
The President of the Namibia National Liberation Veterans Association, Ben Shikongo described the late Petrus Iilonga as the father of Namibia’s trade union movement and a fearless leader.
