Month: June 2023

French industrial metals group Imerys said yesterday it had agreed a joint venture with British Lithium to accelerate UK mining of the mineral used in batteries for electric vehicles. 

STATE-OWNEd power utility, NamPower, has issued a request for proposal for a debt sponsor to help it register a N$5 billion bond program on the Namibian Stock Exchange to finance its renewable energy development. 

A farm, called Zambezi Green, is one of the exhibitors gracing this year’s edition of Discover Namibia’s trade expo that started yesterday in Swakopmund. 

The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO), the preparatory commission of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, has recognised a noticeable shortage of girls and women involved in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from under-represented geographical regions.

Preparations are underway in Outapi, the regional capital of Omusati for the advent of Olufuko, on 1 July 2023, a cultural ceremony of the people in the northern part of Namibia.

Talk in the cities and towns in Namibia is rife with rumours of what have come to be known as “carpet interviews,” “sex for work” and other such incidences. 

Toxic masculinity has become synonymous with concepts such as gender-based violence and the hashtag #MeTooMovement.

By the time this piece is published, the NDP6 development process will have been launched, and the real work will have begun.

The recent and most controversial Supreme Court judgement of Digashu and Others v GRN and Others; Seiler-Lilles v GRN and Others, where the majority ruled that the word spouses should include same sexes, has set a new constitutional jurisprudence in Namibia that does not reflect the values, morals and aspirations of the Namibian people.