By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus From 2014, local and foreign investors have poured in N$5,3 billion to generate electricity from alternative/renewable sources in the country, the Electricity Control Board’s (ECB) Chief Executive Officer, Robert Kahimise, said. The N$5,3 billion includes investment by the independent power producers (IPPs) under Namibia’s Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariff (REFIT), together with NamPower’s renewable […]

By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus In a survey conducted last year, Vision Africa Research Services has highlighted that 40,7%people depend more on radios for their news and other information. The Internet was the second source at 23,6%, followed by TV. Newspapers are the third source of news. The survey results are contained in the Communication Regulatory Authority of […]

By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus As part of the national Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Financing Strategy, the country will soon launch its own Venture Capital Fund, that will be exchanging capital for equity in high-growth SMEs. The Development Bank of Namibia (DBN) announced last week that it is in the process of developing and establishing a Venture […]

By:Justicia Shipena In Namibia, the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) Economic Recovery Loan Scheme has extended its support to an array of industries, including the crucial oil and gas sector. Acknowledging the significance of this sector in the country’s economy, the Bank of Namibia (BoN) has confirmed that SMEs operating within the oil and gas […]

By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The recent three-day National Conference on Human Wildlife Conflict Management has recommended that rural communities take ownership of conservancies and reduce control by non-members. This is included in the summary of the resolutions that were made during the country’s first National Conference on Human Wildlife Conflict Management deliberations. Minister Of Environment, Forestry and […]

By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus Up to 30,635 heads of cattle left the country during the first three months of 2023 relative to 28,972 heads exported during the same period in 2022, according to the Livestock & Meat Industry Q1 Review released by the Meat Board at the end of April. The South African market accounted for 99.4% […]

By:Nghiinomenwa vali Erastus “The knowledge of numbers and their basic operation is essential to survive in today’s world,” said Edda Bohn, deputy Director in the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture. Bohn was speaking at the recent Bank Windhoek’s Capricorn Foundation two-day workshop for the Grade 4 mathematics teachers. She described mathematics is the queen […]

  By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation has called on the mining industry to come up with contracts that can lessen the impact of mine closures given the volatility of mineral commodities. Utoni Nujoma said this as he delivered the keynote address at the 12th Congress of the Mineworkers Union […]