Cash-strapped rail operator TransNamib has spent the last year looking to replace CEO Johny Smith, who left in mid-2023 after turning down a lucrative fresh five-year contract. The union representing the company’s workers has expressed concern about management’s delay in pronouncing itself on the matter. The secretary general of the Namibia Transport and Allied Workers...
Martin Endjala The Motor Vehicle Accident Fund’s (MVA) Chief Executive Officer, Rosalia Martins-Hausiku said the Fund is concerned by the high number of young people aged between 18 to 35 who lost their lives in road accidents during 2023. Martins-Hausiku speaking was during the bi-annual media engagement last week in Windhoek. She said young people...
The Road Fund Administration (RFA) has raised concern about the possibility of losing revenue due to the expected boom in electric vehicles in Namibia. RFA Chief Executive Officer Alli Iipinge acknowledged the inevitable arrival of EVs and their disruptive potential for the fund’s current funding approach, heavily reliant on fuel levies. Iipinge thus appealed to...
Martin Endjala City of Windhoek (CEO) Chief Executive Officer, Moses Matyayi, said the city council has observed with great concern the theft of newly planted flowers, trees and shrubs throughout the city. Matyayi said all trees and shrubs planted along Independence Avenue in celebration of Arbor Day 2023 were illegally uprooted and stolen. This deliberate...
Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have expressed concern over the accelerating negative impact of climate change on biodiversity. The concern was raised at the 25th meeting of the Scientific Body on Technical, Scientific and Technological Advice of the CBD, held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 15 to 19 October. The meeting examined and...
France fly-half Romain Ntamack left the field with a suspected knee problem and Scotland winger Duhan van der Merwe also suffered an injury as the World Cup hosts won 30-27 in a warm-up match in Saint-Etienne on Saturday. Ntamack, 24, was helped off the field after 55 minutes less than a month before the start...
Staff Reporter INCIDENTS of babies dying suddenly are multiplying in the northern regions. Members of the community are bewildered, and the police’s investigations have so far not offered any possible explanation. The latest two such incidents were reported in the Oshana Region recently. According to the police, a month-old baby girl died suddenly in the...