By: Justicia Shipena The Government has paid N$24.1 million for losses caused by wild animals countrywide since 2019, the ministry of environment and tourism has revealed in its human-wildlife conflict update yesterday. The ministerial spokesperson Romeo Muyunda said in 2021 the ministry, through the conservancy programme, employed a total of 3 548 workers, comprising of […]
By: Fransina Nghidengwa Urban and rural development minister Erastus Uutoni has lashed out at the ministry’s staff over issues such as poor service and infrastructure maintenance as he addressed the annual staff meeting yesterday. Uutoni said currently communities are losing their land because of a lack of understanding of the land policy. The rural development […]
By: Staff writer The Namibian Revenue Agency (NamRA) says the loss of revenue due to dishonest importers is what led to amendments to custom laws effective 1 March. The amendments mean that any second hand car transiting through Namibia can only do so in a car trailer and not on its own wheels. “The amendments […]
By: Staff writer Mines minister Tom Alweendo says that Namibia is going to insist on local processing with regard to its lithium. Alweendo said this while attending the Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town. A number of companies in Namibia, including Xinfeng Investment and Askari Metals, have stakes in the resource as lithium-rich […]
By:Hanks Saisai As the current rainy season progresses, good rainfall has been recorded in almost all parts of the country. As a result, crop farmers are witnessing a productive crop production season with noteworthy growth of maize, sorghum, and pearl millet (mahangu). However, amidst the pleasant growth, a crucial aspect of production to undertake is […]
By:Staff writer Namibia is showcasing investment opportunities at the 2023 Invest in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town, South Africa. The 4-day event, which ends tomorrow, is the world’s largest mining investment conference, dedicated to the capitalisation and development of mining in Africa The mining indaba is taking place at a time when Namibia’s mining […]
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus Various adverse developments, globally and on the continent, within food production such as record high prices for food, fertilisers, and energy, as well as supply chain channel disruption, have worsened food security. Domestically, the recurring episodes of floods and droughts have regularly disrupted food production given the reliance on rain-fed production. Thus, the […]
By:Staff writer Askari Metals on Monday confirmed high lithium and tin mineralisation in rock samples from a promising tenement the company recently acquired in Namibia. Headline results from the samples, analysed as part of due diligence for the acquisition, include 3.3% lithium oxide, 3.2% tin, 4280 parts per million tantalum and 7980ppm rubidium. The samples […]
By:Justicia Shipena A group of Covid-19 volunteers are demanding that the health ministry offer them permanent employment. This is after the health ministry decided to terminate the contracts of all 1 444 Covid-19 volunteers across the country in October last year. On Tuesday the group marched to the health ministry’s building shouting, “When they recruited […]
By:Justicia Shipena President Hage Geingob says in his years of travelling through Namibia, he has not seen children being taught under trees and that this is now a prominent issue. Geingob uttered these remarks at the opening of cabinet for the year 2023 on Tuesday in Windhoek. According to him, the issue of education must […]