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While the world benefits from mineral products essential for fuel and raw materials for industrialisation, the associated adverse environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues fall largely on indigenous people and local communities. This also constrains the achievement of other sustainable development goals. Typical problems involve health problems linked to air pollution, the displacement of communities […]

The Namibian Organic Association (NOA) in collaboration with the Namibia Nature Foundation (NNF) will host the Organic Food Jam next week. NOA chairperson and NNF coordinator and technical adviser Marieke Voigts says the event will be held on 9 July at Farm Krumhuk, located close to Windhoek. The Organic Food Jam builds on the first […]

Over 60 pupils from Namibia’s 14 regions are expected to gather at the National Assembly for the week-long Children’s parliament session, under the theme ‘Transforming Education in Namibia’. The sixth session of the Children’s parliament is scheduled to take place from 12 to 19 July. This was announced in a statement released by parliament on […]

Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL) says it is negotiating with the Namibia Football Association (NFA) to see how best it can get value for money after the expiration of its sponsorship deal in June 2023. NBL says it does not make business sense for the company to support the national soccer team without local games in […]

Millions of voters are casting their ballots in the UK’s first July general election since 1945. Polling stations, set up in buildings like local schools and community halls, are open between 07:00 and 22:00 BST on Thursday. Around 46 million voters are eligible to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons. The […]

Landless People’s Movement (LPM) leader Bernadus Swartbooi says the communal land allocated to the /Khomanin community should not be less than 30 000 hectares. Swartbooi made these remarks in parliament on Wednesday, while pledging his support for the government’s decision to allocate communal land to the Khomanin community in the Khomas region. According to Swartbooi, […]

Katutura Residents Committee spokesperson Shaun Gariseb has thanked the Ministry of Mines and Energy for cancelling the planned electricity tariff hike. Electricity Control Board (ECB) chief executive Robert Kahimise recently announced that the 8% electricity tariff increase planned effective 1 July was cancelled after the government made N$365 million available to subsidise consumers’ electricity costs […]

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Workers of the Namibia Industrial Development Agency (Nida) yesterday went on strike to demand salary increments and better working conditions. The workers alleged the organisation has the funds available to hire new management, but fails to increase workers’ salaries. The Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) yesterday on behalf of the workers said they […]

Chief justice Peter Shivute has paid tribute to former Zambian chief justice Annel Silungwe, who also served as a judge of Namibia’s High Court, following his death on Sunday. Silungwe died at the age of 88 after a period of illness, Shivute said in a statement issued by the Office of the Judiciary on Tuesday. […]