Namibia must allocate more than 10% of its annual budget to capital projects if the country is to meet its development needs. Thus far Namibia, and Africa, budget less than this amount for developmental activities – leaving many countries on the continent short of their targets.

The Ministry of Basic Education, Arts and culture has called for hard work among teachers to produce good results despite budget cuts that continue to put a strain on their operations.

Spain and Cuba have reaffirmed their commitment to expand cooperation in a number of areas, with Namibia. The two countries’ Heads of Mission paid a joint courtesy call on Vice President, Nangolo Mbumba.

Namibian women in leadership plan to establish a mentorship programme where seniors would take their junior counterparts through the ropes, to ensure a proper succession plan. This came to light during the celebration of International Women’s Day today.

The My Namibia Song competition has been halted. Information and Communication Minister, Stanley Simataa announced that the cancellation was because the votes received from the competition failed to meet the minimum threshold. The winning song was projected to receive between 20 000 to 50 000 votes. Only slightly over 6 000 votes have been received […]

The Namibian Institute of Public Administration and Management, (NIPAM) is racing against time to transform the public service as envisaged in the Harambee Prosperity Plan. In this regard, NIPAM signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Namibia Standards Institution (NSI) to scale up training for public and civil servants.

Cricket Namibia recently held its first development fun day for 2018 at the Oval cricket grounds in Walvisbay. More than 189 players, between the ages of 7-10, took part in the FNB Kwata cricket fun day hosted by Cricket Namibia. Implemented by Cricket Namibia, Kwata Cricket provides all young girls and boys with an opportunity […]

An official 7-member Special Olympics Namibia board was introduced to the public at a media briefing at the Football for Hope centre in Katutura, Windhoek on Thursday. The team will be chaired by Cliff Olivier. The Special Olympics Namibia programme was initially suspended by Special Olympics International late last year, due to alleged mismanagement by […]

Selected Namibian referees left for Cairo, Egypt on Wednesday to attend the CAF Referees Development Workshop from the 13 to 15 March. Namibia Football Association (NFA) Referees Manager Absalom Goseb and National Referees Chairman Erastus Shilunga will also attend the workshop, which is part of the Confederation of African Football’s (CAF) capacity building’ programme. The […]

A man believed to be in his late fifties, committed suicide by hanging himself at his family home at Keetmanshoop.