Bank Windhoek is proud to announce that commencing Monday, 19 February 2018, all its branches countrywide will start buying and selling Chinese yuan (CNY) notes. Yuan notes will be traded in addition to the current range of foreign currency notes which are exchanged at 0% commission. Bank Windhoek will accept denominations of 10, 20, 50…
Less than six months after the third launch of Standard Bank’s Buy-a-Brick initiative, in partnership with the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN), most of the commissioned houses are reaching completion. The Bank’s flagship initiative, which was initially launched in October 2015 with the aim of helping in alleviating the housing shortage in the country…
Government will fulfil financial and material promises made to the late former Prime Minister and opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Sunday. Addressing mourners at Tsvangirai’s home where he had gone to pay his condolences, President Mnangagwa said he would see to it that pledges he made to…
Following 11 years of wrongful imprisonment after suffering an obstetric emergency, the Salvadoran Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) and the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety commuted a Salvadoran woman’s sentence and released her today. In their decision, the court stated that there was insufficient scientific evidence to determine that she took any voluntary actions…
Standard Bank in partnership with the National Housing Enterprise (NHE), this week held a ground-breaking ceremony to begin construction on Gold Paralympian Ananias Shikongo’s house. Having won three medals in the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro to become the third Namibian to do so, as such Standard Bank decided to reward Shikongo for…
City tours are offered all over the world – only Windhoek missed out! It’s time to catch up with international standards and boost our tourism and City! A well-organized project for such tours was successfully launched on Wednesday, 14th February, by Namibia Scientific Society and Windhoek City Tours/Lothem Safaris! From 1st March 2018 onwards tours…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday mourned the death of opposition political leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, saying he would be accorded a state assisted burial while lauding him as a fearless fighter for the rights of workers and democracy in his later life as a politician. Tsvangirai, 65, succumbed to cancer of the colon on Wednesday after…
CABI scientists have joined an international team of experts who suggest that the large-scale management of a range of some invasive plants could hold the key to reducing the spread of deadly malaria. Dr Arne Witt and Dr Sean Murphy worked with scientists from the University of Illinois, The Ohio State University and the Fundación…
Orlando Safaris opens its doors to domestic and foreign tourists as a safari speccialist and tour operator. The Namibian owned and operated company offers a full service for arranging and booking safaris, throughout Nambia and has its own highly trained staff. Orlando Safaris runs its administration and bookings operations locally from its iffices in Windhoek.…