The Capricorn Foundation Food Waste Challenge received 101 submissions in the categories of collection, distribution and storage, with the winning solution set to be announced on 17 October 2022. The initiative is in support of the international community’s World Food Day celebration. Rikus Grobler, Capricorn Group’s Manager of Innovation and Food Waste Challenge project coordinator,…
The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) encourages all pensioners, children and other annuitants in the Khomas Region to enroll on new biometric enrolment and verification system. We are pleased to announce our participation at this year’s Windhoek Agricultural and Industrial Show as from 23rd September to the 1st October 2022. GIPF will be enrolling pensioners,…
Senior national football team coach Collin Benjamin has said the Young Warriors’ 0-6 defeat to Angola on Saturday is a lesson learned that they will carry forward. The Under-23 national team had a two-leg fixture in Luanda, Angola where they competed for a spot in the U-23 Africa Cup of Nations that will be held…
Khomas NamPol Volley Club and Revival Volley Club were on Saturday crowned the men’s and women’s champions of the 2022 Bank Windhoek Namibia Volleyball Federation (NVF) Cup respectively. The 2022 Bank Windhoek NVF Cup was held at the DTS Sports Ground in Olympia, where Revivals Volleyball Club, one of the more dominant local female teams,…
Former Otjozondjupa Governor, Otto Ipinge, says he hopes to see Swapo return to its glory days if the party allows its current vice president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, to retain her position and consequently, become the next president. Ipinge, who was Swapo’s coordinator for Otjozondjupa for approximately 13 years, told Nampa in an interview on Thursday that…
Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) president Mike Kavekotora on Wednesday submitted a motion to the National Assembly (NA) calling for in-depth investigations of government projects that involved suspicious tender dealings. Kavekotora said all government projects where initial tender prices are suspected to have been inflated, should be properly analysed and criminal charges laid against…
Namibia spent N.dollars 128.6 million in conducting scientific research surveys on living marine organisms and marine environment during the 2019/2020 financial year. This was revealed by the Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Derek Klazen, during a high-level panel discussion on sustainable ocean economy on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in…
Namibia and Angola have for over four decades stood side-by-side, waging various battles in both countries and throughout, the bond between the two countries has remained firm. One of the pillars of this bond was the former president of Angola, Antonio Agostinho Neto. The poet, physician and politician who served as the first president of…
Deputy Minister of Disability Affairs under the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, Alexia Manombe-Ncube, on Wednesday officially launched the celebrations of the 2022 International Sign Language Day in Windhoek. Manombe-Ncube launched this year’s event at Parliament, saying the celebrations will take place under the theme ‘Sign Language Unites Us’. She said…
