Yesterday the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) handed over to State House a third batch of postcards (160 postcards) written by learners from the Zambezi and Khomas Regions, addressed to H.E. Hage Geingob and First Lady Monica Geingos. The LAC was accompanied by the two main actors of the film “Baxu and the Giants”, Camilla Jo-Ann…
The University of Namibia has inked a hallmark partnership with the Namibian Agronomic Board (NAB), committing both institutions towards the goals of achieving food self-sufficiency and economic growth. This collaboration stems from the numerous challenges brought on by Namibia’s arid landscape which impedes not only economic development but threatens the security of food within the…
Every year, the month of June is celebrated as “Milk Month” globally – a month that promotes the health benefits of milk consumption, and also provides an opportunity to acknowledge those that produce milk and other dairy products. It is a harsh reality that operating in the dairy industry is tough – a reality which…
Pick n Pay – a 100% Namibian-owned entity that employs a total of 1931 employees at its 22 retail stores in most major towns in Namibia and subsidiary of the Ohlthaver & List (O&L) Group – has officially announced that it will be restructuring its operations in an effort to set the business on a…
Finance Minister, Iipumbu Shiimi, said that he is content with the response he has seen from all Namibians from both the private and public sectors who continue to embark on fighting COVID-19 as a united front. He said this during the Capricorn Group/EY 2020 Budget Review Discussion, an online live social media broadcast focused on…
The International Monetary Fund’s latest Global Financial Stability Report indicates that financial systems have already felt a dramatic impact during the COVID-19 crisis. In the United States, one of the hardest-hit countries with over two million COVID-19 cases, the effect of the pandemic on businesses has caused it to register close to 40 million job…
FirstRand Namibia through its HOPE Fund has donated 15 fever screening thermal cameras worth N.dollars 1.4 million to the Ministry of Health and Social Services in an effort to strengthen the Government’s efforts to detect early COVID-19 infections. FirstRand Chief Executive Officer Sarel van Zyl in a media statement on Monday said the cameras will…
Dinapama Manufacturing and Supplies has donated more than 4 000 masks to eight schools in the Khomas Rural Constituency in order to help curb the spread of COVID-19. The masks worth N.dollars 235 000 were donated to the Aris Grundschule, Baumgartsbrunn, Bloukrans, Dordabis, Groot Aub, Kwakwas and Nicolas Witbooi Memorial primary schools as well as…
Five-hundred households at Kalkfeld in the Otjozondjupa Region are expected to receive tippy taps for the washing of community members’ hands to help reduce their chances of contracting COVID-19. Project facilitator, Ebben Kharuxab in an interview with Nampa on Wednesday said the setting up of tippy taps started on Monday and a total of 59…
Kalahari Holdings has donated 650 desks and 650 chairs to the Tobias Hainyeko Project School at Katima Mulilo. Speaking during the handover on Monday, Kalahari Holdings Director Ephraim Nekongo said they hope the donation will boost the morale of teachers and learners at the school, where learners had to bring their own chairs from home.…