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Controversial businessman and Cameroonian lawyer NJ Ayuk, who leads the African Energy Chamber (AEC), says he is impressed by the Knowledge Katti Foundation’s efforts to involve local communities in oil and gas projects. This comes after the foundation supported community participation through a recent Sintana Energy deal – a company founded by businessman Knowledge Katti. […]
Urban and rural development minister Erastus Uutoni says the National Housing Enterprises (NHE) has delivered 694 houses since July 2020. Uutoni was speaking during the handover of 65 new houses constructed by the NHE at Gobabis yesterday. The minister said the 694 beneficiary families have been living in corrugated iron houses for years. The houses […]
The man convicted of murdering the two top executives of the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (Nimt) in April 2019 should be sentenced to a substantial period of imprisonment, the prosecutor involved in his trial proposed in the Windhoek High Court yesterday. “These murders were shocking. They were extreme, they were callous,” deputy prosecutor […]
The police at Walvis Bay have confirmed that the mother of the year-old baby, who was found abandoned in the dunes outside the town on Saturday, has been traced. Erongo police spokesperson chief inspector Ileni Shapumba says the baby’s mother (24) was found selling kapana at a local shebeen at Kuisebmond, after a community member […]
A baby of about one year old was found in the dunes at Walvis Bay on Saturday morning. Erongo police spokesperson inspector Ileni Shapumba says the girl was found about 200m from the Walvis Bay road towards Swakopmund. She was wrapped in a blanket and dressed in warm clothes. “It is not clear who brought […]
A Windhoek High Court judge on Friday issued an interdict prohibiting social activist Michael Amushelelo from disrupting the business of a shop in the Okuryangava area of Windhoek. In the interdict granted by acting judge Kobus Miller on Friday afternoon, Amushelelo and the unregistered National Union of Retail Industry Workers of Namibia, of which Amushelelo […]
The Electricity Control Board (ECB) has approved an increase of 8% in NamPower’s electricity bulk tariff for the period 2024/25. In a statement issued on Friday, the ECB said this translates to an average tariff increase from N$1,9856 per kilowatt hour (kWh) currently to N$2,1444 per kWh. According to the statement, NamPower applied for an […]
Swapo secretary general Sophia Shaningwa has been instructed by lawyer Richard Metcalfe, from Metcalfe Beukes Attorneys, to hold an extraordinary congress on or before the 4 May or face a court challenge. The law firm represents three Swapo party members, namely Reinhold Shipwikineni, Peter Shituula and Joshua-Vaino Martins. In a letter dated 26 April 26 […]
Hyphen Hydrogen Energy (Hyphen) has appointed Victoria Pieters as its head of human resources and Titus Kanyanda as its finance manager. Pieters has over 24 years of experience in human resources and brings a unique blend of expertise to Hyphen. She has a bachelor of technology in human resource management and certifications in management development […]
The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) has increased its monthly pension and disability benefits by 5% from 1 April. In a statement issued by Edwin Tjiramba, the general manager of marketing and stakeholders’ engagement, the fund says active annuitants (pensioners, spousal and child beneficiaries) will be awarded a 5% increase. Tjiramba says a 5% increase […]