About 46 employees at Dinapama clothes and textile manufacturing company face retrenchment in December. The Namibia Manufacturing and Retail Workers Union which represents 42 of the employees, are now at loggerheads with the Dinapama management.

Almost 50 employees at Dinapama clothes and textile manufacturing company face retrenchment.. Most of them belong to the Namibia Manufacturing and Retail Workers Union, which is now embroiled in a fight with the management of Dinapama. The workers say they are being victimized because they demanded their rightful annual salary increments. They accuse the management […]

President Hage Geingob inaugurated the Namibian chancery in Paris with a call on staff to continue promoting relations between the two countries. Dr. Geingob says political diplomacy ought to be augmented with economic development of equal partnerships. The relations between Namibia and France date back from pre-independence which resulted in SWAPO maintaining representation in Paris […]

The City of Windhoek will introduce new bus routes as from 2017 which will provide better and faster services to commuters in the city. This was revealed during a consultation session organised by City of Windhoek with commuters at the UN Plaza.

The Sparta cricket club – based at Walvisbay – is well-known for its batting-friendly pitch and the Namibian team used these good conditions well after they were sent into bat first and scored a massive 302 for 9. Namibia lost their first wicket on 97, with both opening batsmen scoring 50 at the end. Some […]

One of Namibia’s most celebrated schools, St. Boniface in the Kavango East Region reminisced on its years of excellence during a reunion at the weekend, and raised almost 50 000 dollars in pledges. Saint Boniface College is a Catholic School located 30 km east of Rundu. The college was created in 1994 and has in […]

French President Francois Hollande has congratulated Namibia for addressing the effects of climate change since signing the Paris Accord earlier this year. President Hage Geingob met his French counterpart at the Elysee Palace for closed door official talks on Monday. A declaration of intent relating to scientific co-operation on combating climate change was signed by […]

Namibian medical Students at People’s Friendship University of Russia as well as those studying in Zambia and Cuba have not received their allowances for November, December and January. They were informed that they can only be paid after three more weeks, a situation they say is unacceptable.

More than 25% of Namibia’s rural population currently have access to electricity. Fifty-five households at Haib Settlement in the Karasburg East Constituency in the //Karas region benefited from a 6,3 million dollar electrification project recently.

The Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) President Raimo Hausiku was buried at Nkurenkuru village in the Kavango west region. Hausiku died in a road crash last Monday on the Otjiwarongo-Okahandja road.