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NamRa To Investigate Tax Return Submissions
By:Justicia Shipena The Namibia Revenue Agency (NamRa) will form an investigation team to assess the legitimacy of zero tax returns submissuions. In a press release last week, NamRa said the team will be established in July. The revenue collecting agency said it has observed that some enterprises consistently submit zero-tax returns, implying that no earnings […]
Opinion: High Unemployment Affects the Economy
By:Josef Kefas Sheehama As the world observed the 2023 May Day celebration, workers in Namibia lamented over unfair labour practices, like casualisation, and non-payment of minimum wage by some employers- under the theme “Workers United in Ensuring Productivity for National Economic Growth and Guarding against Unfair Labor Practices in the World of Work.” Dr. Hage […]
Digital Spaces: Rights And Responsibilities
Admire Mare Digitisation is no longer something in the distant future but an everyday reality, even in Africa, which is still struggling to modernise its ageing telecommunications infrastructure. Although digitisation as a transformative social process has been in full swing globally for a long time, it accelerated at a frantic pace during the Covid-19 pandemic. […]
Economists Forecast Reduced Fuel Prices In Local Market
By:Justicia Shipena Simonis Storm Securities, in their oil market outlook for May 2023, predicts that local fuel price reductions will be announced in the upcoming months. On 3 May the Mines and Energy Ministry resolved to keep the petrol prices unchanged while diesel consumers saw a decrease in the price by 80 cents per litre, […]
400 Rössing Workers To Be Axed Next Year- Union Claims
By:Hertha Ekandjo and Matthias Hangala Around 400 workers of the Rössing Uranium mine will be retrenched come next year, according to the Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN). The company last month began offering its workers voluntary separation packages, until the end of 2026. This was after the company’s Board of Directors on 22 February, announced, […]
Human-wildlife Conflict Puzzles Continue As Stakeholders Meet …as 245,000 beneficiaries depend on conservations (including wildlife)
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus Namibia is facing a natural conundrum of maintaining and expanding its biodiversity as human-wildlife conflict continues, and compensations pile up on government doors. From crocodile and hippo attacks in the eastern regions, lions for those closer to Etosha, elephants trembling and infrastructure damage, and others. The country’s human-wildlife conflicts have now hastened the […]
Broadcasting Industry Reaps Rewards With 6% Revenue Boost
By:Justicia Shipena According to the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (Cran), the broadcasting industry saw a 6% increase in income in the final quarter of 2022. Cran published its fourth-quarter 2022 Telecommunications, Broadcasting and Postal Sector statistics on Thursday. The report gave an overview of mobile broadband, fixed line and other subscribers, including fixed internet […]
Nam Can Grow More Than 1.1 Million Fruit Trees To Reduce 90% Fruit Import …the country goes as far as Spain to get fruits
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus Most fruits consumed in Namibia such as apples, pears and bananas are seldom produced in the country. Given this reality, over 90% of fruits consumed in Namibia are imported. This is according to a Baseline Study Regarding The Status Quo Of Fruits Production In Namibia. The study was done by the Namibian Agronomic […]
Some 1,400 Business OwnersCountrywideTo Be Trained By July 2023
By:Fransina Nghidengwa The Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade, in partnership with the German Sparkassenstiftung for International Cooperation (DSIK) through the Ministry’s Empretec Namibia Programme, will deliver an entrepreneurial training interventionover the coming months. Enhancing Entrepreneurship Development Programme in Namibia- or Empretec Namibia – is an initiative of the Government of Namibia working in partnership with […]
Mathematics Is The Queen Of Science, Says Education Executive
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 […]