During the 2021/2022 cropping season, 44 959 farmers of which half were women benefitted from input and mechanised services from the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform’s Dry Land Crop Production Programme. During the same year a total of 771 horticulture producers of which 50 per cent were women also benefitted from the horticulture support and value chain development

Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) member of parliament (MP), Elma Dienda, on Tuesday supported a motion tabled in the National Assembly to have all water debt owed by all local authorities in the country be written off by NamWater. The motion was tabled by Landless People’s Movement (LPM) MP Henny Seibeb in the National Assembly where he said debts owed to

The Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) on Monday announced names of the newly elected leadership for the northern regions. Re-elected chairperson for the MUN northern regions, Mathew Mberiuana, told Nampa in an interview on Monday that 66 delegate members from the several branches of the northern areas attended the one-day conference on Saturday at Tsumeb, where they elected their new

The most predominant form of violence in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is emotional violence, a 2018 Comprehensive Gender-Based Violence (GBV) study, has revealed. The study presented here on Tuesday by SADC Public Security Senior Officer Kealeboga Moruti, at the opening of the GBV Training Workshop for the National Assembly’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Gender Equality, Social Development and

Ombudsman Basilius Dyakugha has called on Namibians, particularly parents of school-aged children, to focus their attention on the barriers that African children face in their pursuit of quality education. Dyakugha made the call on Thursday in commemoration of the Day of the African Child, which traces its roots to the 1976 uprising in Soweto, South Africa, when children demanded to

Namibia ranked 24th out of 180 countries globally in 2021 according to the World Press Freedom Index. Charge d’ Affairs in the United States of America (US) Embassy in Namibia, Jessica Long, said the above ranking is an achievement worth celebrating in a statement issued here on Monday. World Press Freedom Day is observed annually on 03 May. “On World

Namibia has been a presidential democracy since independence from South Africa in 1990. Much executive power is vested in the head of state, who is elected directly every five years in parallel to the National Assembly. The South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) has held an absolute parliamentary majority since 1990. Hage Geingob was elected president of Namibia in 2014,

President Hage Geingob has declared a period of national mourning in honour of former Zambian President Rupiah Banda, the Presidency has announced. In a statement issued late Wednesday afternoon, the Presidency said the declaration is consistent with Article 32 of the Namibian Constitution, read together with the Conferment of National Honours Act. “His Excellency Dr Hage G Geingob has declared

“Two words; BIG MACHINES. This is what inspired me to get into mining, as I have always been fascinated by mega machines, from the array of pumps, to crushers, to mills to the colossal haul trucks that the mine has no shortage of.” These were the words of 30-year-old Othilie Hoveka, a qualified Mechanical Engineer currently acting as a Maintenance

The Angolan and Namibian governments have agreed to re-open the Oshikango-Santa Clara and Katwiwi Border posts effective 01 February 2022. The borders between Angola and Namibia were closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak and was only operating to a limited extent for health issues, mainly of Angolans. A statement availed to Nampa on Saturday by the Ministry

Namibia’s junior lightweight boxer Sakaria ‘Desert Storm’ Lukas put up an impressive fight Saturday night to draw against Mongolia’s Tugstsogt Nyambayar in an undercut fight in Philadelphia. Lukas, who travelled to the United States of America after taking the fight on short notice, gave the heavily favoured Nyambayar a very difficult fight in the opener of a “Showtime Championship Boxing”

The Roads Authority (RA) has urged motorists to refrain from using main road 28 between Grünau and Seeheim in the ||Kharas Region due to flooding. RA in a statement on Thursday said the road forms part of the C12 tourist route and was formally de-proclaimed in 2014 due to annual flooding and the danger it posed to the public. The

The Nkurenkuru Town Council ( NTC) will as from Friday start disconnecting the water of residents who owe the town council more than N.dollars 500. This was said by Nkurenkuru Town Council Chief Executive Officer Petrus Sindimba in an interview with Nampa on Thursday. He said the Nkurenkuru Town Council does not want to end up like the Rundu Town

The national emergency caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in the United States continues to pose a grave threat to our health and security. As of November 26, 2021, the United States has experienced more than 47 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 773,000 COVID-19 deaths. It is the policy of my Administration to implement science-based public

The remains of the late All People’s Party president Ignatius Shixwameni, who passed away on 10 November, were laid to rest Saturday morning at Sarusungu Cemetery opposite the University of Namibia’s Rundu Campus on Saturday. Mourners, family, friends and All People’s Party members dressed in their party colours all came to bid farewell to Shixwameni. The funeral was attended by