By:Uakutura Kambaekua Okuruuo, also known as ‘the holly fire’, will be documented and adopted on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO) websitenext year as part of the agency’s ongoing project aimed at safeguarding intangible cultural heritages for the future and educational purposes. UNESCO’s Namibia National Commission in collaboration with the ministry of […]
By:Megameno Shinana With a supreme court judgement having ruled two years ago that scab labourers acted independently when performing the work of striking workers, a prominent lawyer Nixon Markus has bashed the court for effectively rendering strikes meaningless. Labour experts are now taking the war onto the doorstep of the law itself. The supreme court […]
By:Josef Kefas Sheehama An education without technology does not prepare Namibians with the skills that the world requires. Technology should be omnipresent in education. It is the demand for change that propels education systems to produce a country’s innovators, inventors, creators, problem solvers, entrepreneurs, global citizens, change-makers and critical thinkers. Education is a catalyst for […]
By:Justicia Shipena The institute for public policy research (IPPR) in its local and regional government annual assessment found that councils located in economically developed areas tend to perform better. IPPR on Thursday launched the first edition covering 01 September 2020 to 30 August 2022. IPPR research associate Kitty Mcgirr said questionnaires were emailed to the […]
By:Justicia Shipena The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Namibia together with the environment and tourism ministry and the Japanese embassy in Namibia will early 2023 work on study tours and exchange of information on the promotion of carbon markets in Namibia. This was revealed in a Japan Supplementary Budget (JSB) progress report titled, “Steps […]
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus A six months review by the country Central Procurement Board has revealed that N$1,4 billion worth of tenders that it facilitated, almost all of them were awarded to Namibian bidders. This comes at a time there has been an outcry by local contractors as they get sidelined when it comes to lucrative tenders, […]
By:Staff writer Trade unionists, research experts and directors of the international think-tank, Transparency International have piled pressure against Icelandic fishing giant, Samherji, demanding restorative justice. They also accused Samherji of carrying on with its operations with impunity three years after the disclosure of the Fishrot scandal in Namibia. Eighteen of these experts have signed a […]
By:Hertha Ekandjo Nearly eight months after the agriculture ministry said that it would offer the country’s 11 green schemes to local and foreign investors to lease and operate, there appears to have been no takers yet. The country’s government-run green schemes have been unproductive for years, prompting government to look at potential local and foreign […]
By:Uakutura Kambaekua Farmers at Okovingava village in the Opuwo Urban constituency this week received gardening fencing material worth more than N$10 000 from the Protestant Unity Church, also known as the Oruuano church. According to Bishop Wylie Vekarapo Upi, his church has been involved in addressing poverty, starvation and the provision of dwellings to the […]
Are Research Methodology Lectures Half Preparing Students? By:Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka For the past two years, the government, through the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA), has had the national census postponed. In my view, this is one of the issues that is supposed to cause an uproar from the public. In a literally sense, we should stand up […]