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Shafudah targets youth, food security in 2025/26 budget

March 27, 2025
Chamwe Kaira and Allexer Namundjembo  Finance Minister Erica Shafudah has placed youth empowerment and food security at the centre of the country’s N$106.3 billion 2025/26 national budget, unveiled...
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Former fisheries minister and PA deny corruption in fishing quotas

March 26, 2025
Ester Mbathera  Former Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Derek Klazen and his former personal assistant, Leevy Lee Abrahams, have denied allegations of corruption in the system for alloca...

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Amupanda headed for the Supreme Court after Red Line defeat

March 27, 2025
Allexer Namundjembo and Niël Terblanché High Court Judge Shafimana Ueitele said he was placed in a difficult position when making his ruling in the Red Line case, following public statements made b...
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Nandi-Ndaitwah renews call for German genocide reparations

March 27, 2025
Hertta-Maria Amutenja  President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has repeated the government’s call for Germany to take full responsibility for the genocide committed against the Ovaherero and Nama people d...
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Walvis Bay residents reject 12% Shack Levy

March 27, 2025
Allexer Namundjembo Walvis Bay residents have rejected a proposed 12% "shack levy" suggested by the municipality recently. The idea was met with criticism from community leaders, who argue the l...
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Dr Luvindao’s surprise visit exposes reality at Katutura health center

March 27, 2025
Niël Terblanché Dr Esperance Luvindao, the minister of health and social services, made an unannounced visit to the Katutura Health Centre on Thursday morning. In a video clip posted on the soci...
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Fuel shortages persist at tourist destinations run by NWR

March 27, 2025
Niël Terblanché While Erica Shafudah, the finance minister, delivered her maiden national budget speech in the National Assembly, visitors to some of the country’s premier tourist destinations cont...
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Media and civil society to drive green economy oversight

March 27, 2025
Herrta-Maria Amutenya  Media and civil society will play a key role in monitoring Namibia’s transition to a green economy under a new initiative called the Eco Dialogue Collective. The project, ...

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GDP rose to N$157.4 billion in Q4

March 27, 2025
CHAMWE KAIRA  The country’s gross domestic product rose from N$155 billion to N$157.4 billion in 2024, marking a 3.7% year-on-year increase.  The result was slightly above Rand Merchant Ban...
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Floods Disrupt Paladin’s Uranium Targets for 2025

March 27, 2025
CHAMWE KAIRA  Paladin Energy expects production at its Langer Heinrich mine to improve in the second half of 2025 through blending ore from open-pit mines. However, floods in the Erongo Region h...
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Namibia, Botswana must harmonise border procedures

March 27, 2025
CHAMWE KAIRA  The Trans-Kalahari Border Post between Namibia and Botswana must harmonise, standardise procedures, provide adequate and reliable information and come up with structural adjustments t...
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Legit, Swagga join Pepkor’s growing fashion empire

March 27, 2025
CHAMWE KAIRA  Pepkor has signed a transaction agreement with Retailability Proprietary Limited to acquire the Legit, Swagga, Style, and Boardmans businesses. These businesses will be added to Pe...
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Rising credit losses threaten FNB earnings

March 27, 2025
CHAMWE KAIRA  Simonis Storm Securities said FirstRand Namibia’s earnings growth remains solid, but rising credit impairments and margin pressure are cause for caution. In a recent report, the fi...
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NBL forecasts 110% increase  in operating profit

March 27, 2025
Namibia Breweries Limited disclosed that according to paragraph 3.4 (b) of the Listing requirements of the Namibia Securities Exchange, shareholders were advised that the group’s operating profit for ...
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