insert_link Sport Villa up to third after Man City win Unai Emery refused to label Aston Villa as Premier League title contenders after his side climbed to third place with a 1-0 win against champions Manchester City. Villa underlined their impressive rise since Emery took charge last season when they out-played treble winners City on Wednesday. Leon Bailey's deflected strike in the 74th minute gave Villa a club record-equalling 14th consecutive home victory. City boss Pep Guardiola believes Villa […] todayDecember 7, 2023 6
insert_link Local 24 days to deadline for mandatory SIM card registration! The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) herewith informs all stakeholders that the deadline for mandatory SIM card registration is on 31 December 2023. Furthermore, SIM card registration is a national initiative aimed at facilitating the investigation of crimes committed with the aid of telecommunications devices and enhancing e-commerce activities and online trading. Moreover, there are also benefits and use cases that are directly facilitated by the registration of digital […] todayDecember 7, 2023 19
insert_link Sport German pair win figure skating gold Newcomers Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin claimed figure skating gold in the pairs short programme at the Grand Prix Final in Beijing on Thursday. The pair representing Germany came in first at this season's Grand Prix Finland and the NHK Trophy, and scored 72.56 points on Thursday at their first Grand Prix Final after a technically challenging routine. The German Hase and Russian Volodin beat Canada rivals Deanna Stellato-Dudek […] todayDecember 7, 2023 2
insert_link Uncategorized 5G and Health Concerns By Kristof Itana, Manager: Technology and Standards, CRAN The next generation of wireless communication networks and services is in our midst. New figures from Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) Intelligence shows that the journey of commercial deployment of the fifth generation of wireless broadband, known as Fifth Generation (5G) wireless technology has already begun in the sub-Sahara Africa with South Africa being the first country in the region […] todayDecember 7, 2023 29
insert_link Business / Economics Average Number of Suspected Digital Shopping Fraud Attempts During Start of Festive Shopping Season in Namibia Up 19.5% Compared to Rest of 2023 TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) released new findings today highlighting e-commerce fraud that occurred during the start of the 2023 holiday shopping season, from the Thursday before Black Friday to Cyber Monday. Based on proprietary insights from TransUnion’s global device risk consortium, the average number of suspected digital fraud attempts on any given day during that holiday period where the consumer was located in Namibia during the transaction, was 87.5% higher than the […] todayDecember 7, 2023 16
insert_link Opinion Pieces Sixty-four percent of Bank Windhoek’s workforce are women By Bank Windhoek’s Strategic Communication Manager, Samuel Linyondi The 2023 United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Report found that around 2.4 billion working-age women are not afforded equal economic opportunity worldwide. Published by the United Nations in 2015, the SDGs are a collection of seventeen interlinked objectives designed to serve as a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. The Fifth […] todayDecember 7, 2023 39
insert_link Business / Economics The Alexforbes Lead Story – 6 December Did you know that Pupkewitz are busy building a brand new Lifestyle branch? Listen to this interview with Group Finance Manager, Eugene Sheppard to find out all about it. https://iono.fm/e/1388038 todayDecember 7, 2023 17
insert_link Africa COP28: Africa could lose $25 billion per year as new EU carbon tax comes into effect, warns African Development Bank’s Adesina African Development Bank Group President Dr Akinwumi Adesina has warned that a new EU carbon border tax could significantly constrain Africa’s trade and industrialization progress by penalizing value-added exports including steel, cement, iron, aluminium and fertilizers. Adesina said, “With Africa’s energy deficit and reliance mainly on fossil fuels, especially diesel, the implication is that Africa will be forced to export raw commodities again into Europe, which will further cause de-industrialisation of […] todayDecember 7, 2023 7
insert_link Business / Economics COP28 announces new partnerships and initiatives to advance sustainable urban development Over 40 ministers met today in Dubai in support of subnational climate action, joining the COP28 Presidency to announce a series of partnerships to accelerate the net-zero transition and climate resilience in cities. The announcements span sectors including buildings, waste and resource management systems, urban water resilience, and urban nature restoration. They build on the 1 December launch of the Coalition for High Ambition Multilevel Partnerships for Climate Action (CHAMP) […] todayDecember 7, 2023 9
