Trigon Metals-owned Kombat Mine near Otavi and the Mineworkers Union of Namibia on Friday agreed to collaborate to resolve workers’ grievances. The mine’s vice president for operations, Stephanus Muller, said this in a memo to workers in which he described the meeting as successful. “Reginald Kock, the regional organiser of the Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN), and I had a very successful engagement at the mine this afternoon … and strive to create a working environment which is safe and where fair labour practices are followed at all times,” he said. This follows the union claiming that the mine’s management was sabotaging its recruitment efforts at Kombat by intimidating workers not to join the union. “Whenever we recruited workers at the mine as union members and submitted their names to
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The 2024 crop marketing season was a historic crisis for Namibian farmers, with crop yields dropping to less than 30 000t of grain due to drought. This led to the country’s food self-sufficiency rate for white maize, mahangu and wheat dropping from 38% in 2022 to below 26% for the 2024 season. Namibian Agronomic Board (NAB) chief executive Fidelis Mwazi announced this on Tuesday. “One of the most significant challenges in the crop subsector has been the recurring droughts, which have severely impacted our production capacity almost every third year,” he said. Mwazi said the drop in production highlights the urgent need for strategic intervention to support producers and safeguard Namibia’s agriculture. He said it is essential to invest in irrigation farming to boost local cereal production. “The government must