Vol 53 No 2 | NAMIBIA The man most likely to succeed Pohamba 20th January 2012 SWAPO chooses its candidate this year for the 2014 election In the coming political battles, Vice-President Hage Geingob is best placed to succeed President Hifikepunye Pohamba as leader of the governing SWAPO, previously the South West Afr...
Vol 52 No 12 | NAMIBIA Trial by procrastination 10th June 2011 Due to open on 1 June, the long-awaited Avid Investment Corporation trial, involving claims over the embezzlement of 30 million Namibian dollars (US$4.3 mn.), has been postponed ye...
Vol 52 No 11 | NAMIBIA Where the BEE sucks 27th May 2011 A trial in June could mark the start of a reckoning for massive fraud in the public sector workers’ pension fund Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) company Avid Investments collapsed in 2004, losing 30 million Namibian dollars (US$4.3 mn.) to the embezzlement of Social Security Commission (SSC)...
Vol 52 No 4 | NAMIBIAUNITED STATESIRAN No uranium for Tehran 18th February 2011 United States’ worries over possible uranium sales to Iran from the planned Valencia mine in west-central Namibia may have blocked its sale to George Forrest International (GFI), a...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 11 | NAMIBIACHINAJAPAN Harbour of resentment 15th September 2011 A decision by the Namibian state-owned port operator to pre-award an estimated US$285 million contract for the Walvis Bay harbour expansion to the China Harbour Engineering Company...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 6 | NAMIBIA Tarah Shaanika 15th April 2011 Chief Executive Officer, Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) In late March, a Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union branch went on strike at New Era Investments, a Chinese construction company, over wages and benefits. Namibia’s high u...
Vol 51 No 23 | NAMIBIA Culpable contracts 19th November 2010 Oil-trader Glencore International fears Namibia may wish to review its lengthy 2007 contract to provide half of refined petroleum imports until 2014. Namibia’s dollar is tied to th...
Vol 51 No 20 | NAMIBIA SWAPO suffers bee stings 8th October 2010 Elections next month and rumbling financial scandals around SWAPO-linked businesses could boost support for the opposition The opposition was cheered by a legal victory last month, when the Supreme Court overturned the Windhoek High Court's dismissal of an application by nine opposition parties to have...
Vol 51 No 7 | NAMIBIA The rise and rise of son of Sam 2nd April 2010 The prospect of a Nujoma dynasty looms with the promotion of Utoni Nujoma, the eldest son of founding President Sam Nujoma, to the senior cabinet position of Minister of Foreign Af...