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POLITICSThe Bank of Namibia has decided to increase the repo rate to 7% Making the announcement on Wednesday, Bank of Namibia governer Ebson Uanguta said the decision was taken unanimiously. This brings the prime lending rate to 10.5%. “Following a comprehensive review of economic developments and…
POLITICSThe newly appointed governing council of the Namibia Qualifications Authority (NQA) has been tasked with strengthening public confidence in the country’s qualifications system. Minister of education, innovation, youth, sport, arts and culture Sanet Steenkamp made the call during the inauguration of…
POLITICSA Total of 98 382 candidates have registered for the Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate exams at ordinary and advanced subsidiary level. The examinations, which started on 12 October, will run until 11 November, with results expected to be released in the second week of January. This is according…
POLITICSMore than 400 patients from the ǁKharas region were referred to Windhoek for CT scans in one year, forcing patients needing diagnostic investigations to travel about 500 kilometres for the service. Health minister Esperance Luvindao revealed this during the inauguration of the CT scan service and…
POLITICSThe Democrats’ focus on affordability seems to be a winning strategy (we’ll know for sure in a little over two weeks). But we mustn’t lose sight of the moral squalor at the core of the Trump regime and the necessity of ending it. It’s that moral squalor – the utter disregard for the opinions, norms…
POLITICSNurses at Opuwo District Hospital’s maternity ward will no longer have to use cellphone torches to deliver babies after receiving two special lamps donated by the European Union (EU). With an average of 220 deliveries a month, the five nurses per shift can sometimes be overwhelmed by the workload…