Year: 2023

Finance ministry stated the Value-Added Tax Amendment Act 2022 became effective on Sunday, 1 January 2023. 

Namibia, by all comparative standards, has got all the ingredients of a flourishing economy. It has huge deposits of mineral resources, a highly educated youth market and one of the best road networks in the world. 

It has been now more than seven years since the public debate around the removal of a statue, a debate brought to our fore more recently by former SWANU president Usutuaije Maamberua in 2015 when he made demand that the statue of Curt von François in front of the head office of the City of Windhoek be removed.

National Council member and Rundu Rural constituency councillor Paulus Mbangu has said the university of Namibia’s Rundu Campus should now focus their intake on the newly introduced courses for the 2023 academic year and not on the lower and upper primary education courses that have flooded the streets with unemployed graduates.

A 12-year-old girl whose abuse, allegedly at the hand of her guardian, came to light after a video went viral, said she has endured prolonged suffering and neglect, doesn’t go to school and is made to work in an establishment selling alcohol.

With promises to provide them with potable water and toilets, vocational training, jobs, an open market, a bus stop, and a fire station, residents of the Moses //Garoëb constituency head to the polls on Friday to elect a new councillor.

The announcement of the national examination results for grades 11 and 12 last week has sent shock waves through the country as 80% of the candidates who sat for the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate Ordinary and the Advanced Subsidiary (AS) levels failed to qualify for admission to tertiary education institutions. 

A South African national Michael Mpangala, charged with dealing in cocaine worth more than N$5 million, has been remanded in custody after appearing in the Katutura Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The new year came with a blessing, as fuel prices were reduced for January, a month that traditionally comes with huge financial burdens after the holidays.

President Hage Geingob, in his annual New Year’s message, urged Namibians to welcome 2023 as a year of revival and look into the future with renewed hope and optimism.