News By Category Infrastructure

Bypass cuts deep

6 days ago - 19 August 2019 | Infrastructure

Residents of Vergenoeg, an 'illegal' settlement on the western outskirts of Okahandja, held a community meeting on Saturday afternoon. The purpose was to discuss the construction of the Okahandja bypass, which cuts through the settlement.According...

Fire kills one, destroys vessel

6 days ago - 19 August 2019 | Infrastructure

A man was killed when the hake trawler Ocean Tide moored at the jetty of Seawork Fish Processors in Walvis Bay caught fire below deck around 8:00 on Saturday. He formed part of the maintenance...

Air Nam flight delays due to grounded pilots

1 week ago - 16 August 2019 | Infrastructure

Complaints are flooding in from frustrated Air Namibia customers who say they had to spend hours at Hosea Kutako International Airport (HKIA) because of delayed flights.Flights to Cape Town, Johannesburg and Frankfurt were delayed for...

Millions for Windhoek’s informal settlements

1 week ago - 15 August 2019 | Infrastructure

The ministry of urban and rural development has set aside N$50 million to improve the living conditions of Windhoek’s informal settlements residents for the 10 months to March next year. This decision was taken at...

CoW delivers zero serviced plots in 2017/18

1 week ago - 13 August 2019 | Infrastructure

Despite setting sights on delivering 430 serviced erven for residential, business and institutional purposes during the 2017/18 financial year, the City of Windhoek (CoW) failed to make a single plot available.“The total number of serviced...

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RFA considers toll roads

2 weeks ago - 09 August 2019 | Infrastructure

The Road Fund Administration (RFA) wants to investigate the viability of tolling Namibian roads as a potential additional revenue stream to the Road User Charging...

Rail limits Namport

3 weeks ago - 02 August 2019 | Infrastructure

While the expansion of the Walvis Bay port has been welcomed as a boon for the economy, the lack of a modern rail line to...

Zim dry port inaugurated

3 weeks ago - 29 July 2019 | Infrastructure

Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa inaugurated his country's dry port facility in Walvis Bay on Friday. This formed part of his official state visit to Namibia....

Spotlight on financing water infrastructure

1 month - 17 July 2019 | Infrastructure

Global and local experts are converging in Windhoek this week for a roundtable discussion on financing water projects. The event is initiated by Open Africa...

Land is too expensive

1 month - 04 July 2019 | Infrastructure

The Namibian government has recognised that a large section of people still do not have access to land and decent shelter because it is unaffordable,...

N$14m spent on housing, land in Kunene

1 month - 03 July 2019 | Infrastructure

While acknowledging that economic woes have not spared any of the 14 regions – the Kunene has recorded progress in the areas of infrastructure development,...

NHE ta tala komilandu omipe

2 months ago - 24 June 2019 | Infrastructure

Ehangano lyoNational Housing Enterprise otali konaakona onkalo yokutula miilonga omulandu gwohiila nokumona uumwene wegumbo, ihe inali holola natango kutya uunake omulandu ngoka tagu vulu okutulwa...

RA hamstrung

2 months ago - 21 June 2019 | Infrastructure

The Roads Authority (RA) says it does not have adequate funding for the rehabilitation and maintenance of national roads, and that the road-user charges collected...

Millions spent on unfinished govt...

2 months ago - 20 June 2019 | Infrastructure

A N$16 million fisheries ministry infrastructure project in Rundu, which has been under construction since 2012, is still standing incomplete, resulting in officials operating from...

'Missing millions' mystery at Okahao

2 months ago - 19 June 2019 | Infrastructure

The upgrading and renovation work at the Okahao district hospital, which had been abandoned eight years amid allegations that the contractor had received an upfront...

Houses, drought relief food not...

2 months ago - 18 June 2019 | Infrastructure

People should not see houses built for them as a way for the ruling party to campaign for the upcoming election, but rather as development...

Work on Rundu weather office...

2 months ago - 27 May 2019 | Infrastructure

The works ministry has appointed Bongi and Prince Trading to complete the construction of the outstanding and shoddy works done at meteorological office at the...

Home is where the heart...

4 months ago - 11 April 2019 | Infrastructure

The groundwork has been laid for the servicing of 400 plots in two new low-cost residential areas in Oshakati and Okahao.Three-hundred more will be pegged...