By:Hertha Ekandjo The construction sector remains bleak, with poor approval and completion results for the year thus far compared to the same period during the pandemic year 2020. According to Simonis Storm Securities (SSS), this has made it likely for the sector to expect the sixth consecutive contraction in the real value of building plans […]

By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus In first six months of 2023, the country’s extractive industry has managed to excavate 1.2 million carats of diamonds, and 45,541 tonnes of gold, uranium, and zinc. This is according to the mining sectoral reportproduced by the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA), and aggregated by The Villager Business Desk. Namibia has around 26 mines, […]

By:Nghiiomenwa-vali Erastus An entrepreneur in the Kavango East region who collects plastic waste and transforms it into environmentally friendly bricks without using water has won N$50,000 seed capital from Old Mutual Foundation to expand his business. The Wapa-Nawa Recycling Centre won the the Old Mutual Sustainable, Economic & Empowerment Drive (OM SEED) funding for 2023, […]

By:Staff writer Food and non-alcoholic beverages were the biggest contributors to inflation after July’s annual inflation rate stood at 4.5%. This is a year-on-year decrease in inflation compared to the 6.8% witnessed in July 2022 as well as a month-on-month decrease from the 5.3% seen in June this year. In general, the price of food […]

By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus Communal production of staple food has dwindled so badly in the 2022/23 season, grain like mahanguproduction fell by 54% from the10 year’s average communal production. This implies that many villagers who used to be food sufficient will also join the urban dwellers in depending on retailers for their consumption needs. According to data […]

By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The country’s potato producers will be able to supply much of the country’s demand as of 15 August, the Agronomic Board of Namibia said. It said the imports of potato produce without restriction will only be allowed until August 15. A notice indicating products that are closed and open borders for the specially […]

By:FransinaNghidengwa Namibia’s food security situation is significantly deteriorating as a result of highly unfavourable agricultural production during the 2022/2023 cropping season. As a result of this, the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform says 234,000 people faced hunger between April and August 2023. The second Crop and Household Food Security Monitoring Assessment (post-harvest) in […]

By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus A number of 111,495 Namibians have submitted their interest to compete for the approximately 13,000 jobs available for the 2023 Population and Housing Census. As one of the most fierce contests for jobs which highlighted the country’s unemployment and underemployment situation. The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) revealed the figures this week in its […]

By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus In the new wave of energy transition and fighting climate change, Africa has again come to the rescue of the world in providing the needed raw material. The needed raw materials are such as lithium, copper, nickel, manganese, and cobalt, with African countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Morocco, Madagascar, […]

By:Justicia Shipena Namibia is determined to bring the mother-to-child HIV transmission rate down to less than two percent by 2028, a health official said Monday. Ben Nangombe, the Executive Director of the Ministry of Health and Social Services, made the pledge at the opening session of a joint Regional Validation Committee meeting in Windhoek, with […]