Walvis Bay Tourism Forum is in full swing
It is all things business now for the newly founded Walvis Bay Tourism Forum. The Forum was founded on 14 November 2019 and held its firs regular meeting on Wednesday (19 February 2020). WBTF will serve as a communication link between the Municipality of Walvis Bay, regulatory bodies and industry players. Established on 14th November […]
Walvis Bay Salt Refiners Inaugurates new salt wash plant
The capital investment of more than N$93.6 million in a new salt processing plant ensures that Walvis Bay Salt Refiners (WBSR) can now confidently target international markets as the company can meet the ever-increasing international specifications. It is also the single biggest capital investment since the inception of the company in 1964. To read more: […]
Naval visit
Eileen van der Schyff Brazil’s “OPB Amazonas” calls The Brazilian navy ship, offshore patrol vessel “Amazonas” is expected to call at Walvis Bay between 28 February to 2 March. The vessel is in this part of the Atlantic to participate in naval exercises with other navies, as part of Exercise Oban Game Express 2020 (EOGO-2020). […]
Cattle herder perishes in hostile environment
Floris Steenkamp A forty-year-old man who went missing in the Uis area on 14 February’s decomposed body was discovered in the Dam 5 area of the communal farming area near the town on Thursday. The deceased was identified as the 40-year-old William Gao, a cattle herder at Dam 5. To read more: pick up your […]
DHL 4th Annual Beach clean up -Plastics must go!
Saturday, 8 February was the DHL 4th annual beach clean up operation. It was quite a humid day and the sweating started within the 1st kilometer. We picked up loads and loads of plastic, metal cans, glass bottles and ropes. Most of these products come from the vessels at the sea which just dumps them […]
Lüderitz to become the wind energy capital
Lüderitz, the port town some 400km South of Walvis Bay, is rapidly gaining the reputation as Namibia’s green energy hub. The town already has a 5MW wind farm [three generators] and plans for the development of the 44MW Diaz Wind Farm of the United Africa Group are already at an advanced stage. Now a third […]
Inland Revenue Officials Arrested On Corruption Charges
On 18 February 2020, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested two Inland Revenue officials form the Ministry of Finance office in Walvis Bay Olga Melanie Claasen, a 43 -year-old Senior Taxation Officer and Daleen Dames, 36-year-old Taxation Officer allegedly solicited a bribe payment in the amount of N$100 000 from a taxpayer in exchange to alter […]
Future Females
Sharlien Tjambari Close to 200 ladies gathered in Swakopmund on Thursday, 20 February for an evening of networking, aimed at business and personal development. The networking event formed part of the launch of Future Females Swakopmund and was themed “Money and Networking”. Future Females is a platform that connects, inspires and supports existing and aspiring […]
Skipper went down with his vessel
Carlo Gordon, the skipper of the trawler Resplendent that sunk off the central Namibian west coast on Tuesday, is believed to have followed that unspoken rule of prudent seamanship: be the last one to leave the ship, if not the one to go down with the ship. Resplendent went down at approximately 13:00 on Tuesday […]
Labour expert jailed for contempt of court
A prominent figure in Namibia’s labour legislation circles, Mrs Heidi Rossouw, was jailed for thirty days in Walvis Bay on Tuesday, upon conviction for contempt of court. Rossouw reportedly missed a court appearance in a motion court hearing and was subsequently jailed for thirty days. To read more: pick up your copy of the Namib Times […]