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Fransfontein Community Garden Project Is Thriving
By: Juliana Iikela The parliamentary standing committee on natural resources which recently paid a follow-up visit to the Fransfontein Community Garden in the Kunene region has found that the garden is flourishing. The N$12.3 million Green Climate Fund (GCF) funded project was established by the Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia (EIF) along with the ministry […]
Debmarine Donates Gardening Equipment To Mbambi School
By: Annakleta Haikera Debmarine Namibia yesterday donated gardening equipment valued at N$60 000 to the Mbambi Senior Primary School situated in the Sinyugwe circuit of the Kavango East region. Mbambi is a far-flung village in the Mukwe constituency some 60 kilometres from Rundu. The donation consists of gardening equipment such as shovels, rakes, clippers, watering cans […]
Uranium: Namibia’s Main Export For October
By:Staff writer According to financial experts, Namibia’s main export products during October 2022 were uraniumwhich was mainly shipped to China, fish in the main exported to Spain, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and diamonds chiefly sold to the United Arab Emirates and Belgium. The experts at Simonis Storms have however observed that […]
The Unconventional and Unorthodox Thoughts To save public funds, stop taking your whole ministry to one event
By:Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka Some of our problems donot really require International Monetary Fund and the Harvard Lab expertise. Not at all. Especially on reducing public expenditure. We just have to do unconventional little things which on aggregate will be impactful. A few things I have observed all the years I have been reading trends and patterns […]
Venaani Represents Namibia At IDU Forum
By:Hertha Ekandjo The Popular Democratic Movement leader McHenry Venaani has attended the International Democratic Union (IDU) forum in Washington D.C., USA, which ended last week. The Forum was under the theme “Russia, the war and African interests“. Venaani represented Namibia at the forum as a leader of the opposition political party where he serves as […]
School Uniform Manufacturing Project Opened At Nkurenkuru
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The Namibian government has inaugurated a school uniform manufacturing project at the Nkurenkuru town in Kavango West region to cut on the country’s heavy reliance on school uniform imports. The country imports 90% of school uniforms and sportswear sold in local retail stores mainly from South Africa, India and China. Speaking at the […]
Rundu Observes Human Rights Day
By:Annakleta Haikera Human Rights Day was commemorated in Rundu in the Kavango East region last Saturday, which coincided with the end of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. In Namibia, Namibian Women’s Day was enacted by parliament with the same celebration day as the International Human Rights Day with the efforts to raise […]
AfriTin Discovers More Lithium,Tin, Tantalum In Nam
By:Staff writer AfriTin Mining says its exploration activities in Namibia have confirmed the presence of significant lithium, tin and tantalum mineralisation. The exploration programme on its ML133 licence, located about 35 km from the company’s flagship Uis tin mine, started in the fourth quarter of 2021 and conducted over a 12-month period, included aerial surveys, […]
Poultry Products Imports Suffocate Local Production
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The Namibia Agricultural Union (NAU), in its latest Third Quarter Agri-Review 2022, has revealed that the country has advanced in poultry products production, but the sector is under threat from a high influx of poultry meat and products, including eggs. Researcher Beata Xulu revealed in the report that the country’s poultry sector grew […]
Taxi Cabbie Scores Jackpot For His Honesty
By:Rudolf Iiyambo The fortunes of 29-year-old former Windhoek taxi driver Nicco Sibolile have only gotten better a month after he returned N$8000 to a customer who had forgotten her bag in his taxi last month. On Friday, Sibolile collected a N$20000 donation that was a generated from a Go Fund Me account from those who […]