Old Mutual Namibia announced on Thursday that it has awarded internship opportunities for the next six months to 20 graduates who have completed their studies at various institutions of higher learning throughout the country. Accounting, auditing, commerce, communications, economics, finance, information technology and marketing graduates were chosen from a pool of over 400 applicants. The…
The Khomas Regional Council (KRC) on Wednesday held an unspectacular event in remembrance of Cassinga Day at the national Heroes Acre in Windhoek. On the day, Khomas governor Laura McLeod-Katjirua laid a wreath in memory of those who paid the ultimate prize with their lives 44 years ago as well as those who survived the…
Old Mutual Namibia (OMN) on Tuesday announced that it will now accept valid business interruption claims under the respective policy conditions, based on its own legal interpretation. This comes two years after the State of Emergency was declared when the COVID-19 pandemic caused a wave of severe financial losses for Namibian businesses. These losses, according…
A Development Bank of Namibia (DBN) COVID-19 Business Relief Loan of N.dollars 53 million has helped to preserve approximately 950 jobs by financing the salaries of employees of the well-known tourism and hospitality operation, Gondwana Collection Namibia. The 950 employees are spread across the group’s 28 lodging establishments and businesses. According to DBN Executive for…
Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL), a subsidiary of the Ohlthaver & List (O&L) Group, has received the ‘Award for Constant Product Quality’ from the Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft (DLG) Test Centre Food for the 15th time on Thursday. The organisation has been in the agriculture and food industry for 137 years. According to Christian Mueller, NBL Manager for…
Minister of Industrialisation and Trade, Lucia Iipumbu, has implored the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) member states to reflect on policy innovations that will enable value addition. Speaking at a two-day SACU ministerial investment roundtable in Gaborone, Botswana on Tuesday, Iipumbu said there is a need to investigate further opportunities around trade enhancement that will…
The Ministry of Health and Social Services on Tuesday announced that it will issue COVID-19 digital vaccination certificates “soon”. This announcement follows an indication by South Africa that vaccination cards will no longer be accepted and that travellers are required to present vaccination certificates for entry into the neighbouring country. In a media release on…
Sanlam announced on Wednesday a call for young Namibians with innovative business ideas to apply for the Sanlam Bridge Programme in 2022. The Sanlam Bridge serves as a springboard for future Namibian business leaders who either have a registered business that is less than a year old, or who have a viable business idea but…
President Hage Geingob said the German genocide deal should not divide Namibians. “The difficult work that we started in 2015 with the appointment of the late Dr Zed Ngavirue to get the Federal Republic of Germany to come to terms with its past horrors and to acknowledge that a genocide was committed against the Herero…
Several opposition leaders were left baffled by President Hage Geingob’s eighth State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Wednesday, saying it does not inspire any confidence as far as the dire economic situation Namibians find themselves in is concerned. According to them, Geingob continued to preach – as he has done in the past –…