Business Reporter NAMIBIA’S income distribution is heavily bottom-weighted: 54.1% of adults earn N$2,000 or less, and 84.1% earn N$5,000 or less, leaving a thin upper tail. For the economy, this caps the domestic tax base, constrains consumption-led growth, and helps explain why formal saving and...
Staff Reporter THE 33rd Southern African Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF-33) will take place in Swakopmund next month. “Cabinet took note of the request by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat for the Republic of Namibia to host the Climate Expert Meeting and the Climate...
Staff Reporter NO NATION can prosper without equipping the youth with skills and knowledge. This was said by Prime Minister Elijah Ngurare in a speech read on his behalf by Ohangwena Governor Kadiva Hamutumwa on Wednesday at the opening of the Eenhana Expo. Delivering the Prime Minister’s address...
Staff Reporter JOHANNES Bock, a 21-year-old man from the Hardap Region, has been sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment for the murder of his 18-year-old girlfriend, whom he strangled to death. High Court Judge Claudia Claasen, who handed down the sentence, said that three years of the 18-year senten...
Staff Reporter THE family of a man identified as Paul David Markus Tiboth (73), who jumped from the second floor of Katutura Hospital in an alleged state of delirium, is demanding answers from the Ministry of Health and Social Services as they allege that their loved one died due to negligence by hospit...
