The Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform commenced with a pivotal five-day planning workshop on Monday aimed at confronting agricultural challenges head-on. Bringing together stakeholders from across the nation, the event, held in Windhoek, sought to devise strategies to combat the escalating crisis exacerbated by adverse climate conditions. Minister, Carl Schlettwein emphasized the gravity...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform commenced with a pivotal five-day planning workshop on Monday aimed at confronting agricultural challenges head-on. Bringing together stakeholders from across the nation, the event, held in Windhoek, sought to devise strategies to combat the escalating crisis exacerbated by adverse climate conditions. Minister, Carl Schlettwein emphasized the gravity...
The deepening cocoa crisis in major cocoa-producing countries such as Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire is yet to affect Namibia as reflected in recent inflation figures, research experts Simonis Storm have said. It has been reported that that chocolate prices are continuously rising due to a deepening cocoa crisis in major cocoa-producing countries such as Ghana...
Namibia, the world’s third largest uranium producer, has been challenged to utilise its resources locally to deal with rising energy prices, a top official has said. Tjekero Tweya, head of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on natural resources, contends that despite Namibia’s wealth in resources like uranium, the country’s focus on exporting rather than harnessing them...
Economist Omu Kakujaha-Matundu says consumers’ cost-of-living crisis is expected to worsen, following steep price hikes in both petrol and diesel. Businesses too will suffer from higher production costs, he says. This comes as the Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday announced that the petrol price would increase by N$1,52 and both diesel prices by 72...
City of Windhoek spokesperson Lydia Amutenya says NamWater earlier this year indicated that the combined amount of available water in the dams serving Namibia’s central area may no longer be able to sustain its consumption needs beyond May 2025. She said this in the municipality’s newsletter, ‘The Aloe’, on Thursday. “Therefore, we are once again...
Gen Z staar ‘n vroeë ‘mid-life crisis’ in die gesig as gevolg van sosiale media Dr. Vivek Murthy, ‘n Amerikaanse chirurg, het kommentaar gelewer op ‘n wêreldwye welstandsopname wat bevind het dat 15- tot 24-jariges toenemend minder gelukkig is as ouer geslagte. Vivek sê om kinders toe te laat om sosiale media te gebruik, was...
What is capitalism? Capitalism is an economic system which emphasises private ownership, market-driven allocation of resources and profit maximisation. In capitalist societies, housing is often treated as a commodity, rather than a basic human need. The housing market operates based on supply and demand, with prices determined by market forces. Namibia is facing a housing...
“Port-au-Prince is in panic mode,” a friend in the Haitian capital texted me. Residents of Petionville, a wealthier area of of the city, are shaken after their most violent day so far in the country’s spiralling security crisis. More than a dozen bullet-ridden bodies lay in the street – the victims of the latest gang...
