Stefanus Nashama The United Peoples Movement (UPM) has expressed its disappointment with the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) for not paying the enumeration workers, who participated in the fieldwork of the 2023 Population and Housing Census. Expressing the concern last week, the party leader Jan van Wyk, stated that it is unbelievable that the agency would...
Business Reporter CABINET has taken certain resolutions regarding the future of Meatco, amidst reports that the Public Enterprise is struggling to pay farmers that provide it with. meat, with over N$ 300 million owed to farmers. Wilson Shikoto, spokesperson of the finance ministry said that short, medium and long-term strategies were approved and are being...
Hertta-Maria Amutenja Households owned by pensioners in the City of Windhoek (CoW) owe the municipality a total of N$255 million in unpaid rates and taxes. The outstanding amount is part of the total amount of N$1.2 billion owed by residents to the city. This was revealed by Abel Isaaks, who works in the city’s finance...
Staff Reporter THE approximately 600 Okapare fishermen who lost their jobs in 2022 have expressed their concern that the fishing quotas allocated to newly awarded companies in the Government Employment Redressing Programme are inadequate to ensure permanent employment for the fishermen. The fishermen have also complained that they are yet to receive salaries from the...
The amount of unpaid dues that South African municipalities owe debt-laden power company Eskom has risen to more than 63.2 billion rand and is increasing exponentially. This is risking even longer power cuts around the country, the electricity minister said on Sunday. News24 reports that the figure had risen by 4.7 billion rand since the...
Security guards from Khaibasen Security Services have not been paid for two to three months. The Namibia Independent Security Union (NISU) has now threatened to take legal action to recover the unpaid wages of the security guards. Based in Otjiwarongo, Khaibasen Security Services has more than one hundred officers guarding places such as banks, municipalities,...