WINDHOEK - The first-ever Wages Commission for Domestic Workers was inaugurated at a lodge outside the capital on Monday.
Domestic workers include housekeepers, child-minders, elderly caregivers, drivers and gardeners, as well as general workers employed in a household.

At the event, newly-appointed Chairperson of the Wages Commission for Domestic Workers, Dr Libertina Amathila, vowed to bring an end to children being employed as domestic workers i...

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UUHEHE - Veteran politician, Andreas Zack Shipanga, a founding member of Swapo and later the breakaway Swapo-D or Swapo-Democrats, will be buried on Saturday.

Shipanga was a key figure in the liberation movement Swapo before he was relegated to the political wilderness after he and other Swapo cadres engineered the short-lived ‘Shipanga Rebellion’.
Shipanga, together with Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, were founding members of the Ovamboland Peo...

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WINDHOEK – Namibia’s internationally acclaimed boxing promoter Nestor Tobias is a worried man. His troubles are compounded by the continued reluctance of the corporate world to come on board and to turn around the fortunes of professional boxing in the form of sponsorships.

Sunshine, as Tobias is known among his peers in boxing circles also raised serious concerns over the hardcore stance of local broadcasters and their apparent refusal to right...

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WINDHOEK – National public broadcaster, NBC, is mooting drastic changes that are bound to ruffle feathers within the market of commercial radio broadcasting and related services, in its quest to generate a profit.

The brash NBC director-general Albertus Aochamub says the changes, which include introducing new non-traditional/conventional services associated with NBC and cost adjustments for current services, are necessary to finalise the “financial clean-up” and to turn the beleaguered public broadcaster into a “going-concern entity”.

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