SASSCAL

Companies Face Review Over Understudy Shortfalls

Three companies appeared before the Employment Equity Commission review panel earlier this week for not appointing Namibian understudies for foreign employees. Ludorf Iyambo reports that SASSCAL, the NTA, and Letshego Bank are also accused of failing to seek exemptions from the labour ministry to justify employing foreign nationals without local understudies.

23 January, 2026

Namibia

Stakeholders discuss Africa’s path to sustainable

The Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management, in partnership with the University of Rostock, and supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Research, has concluded the 3rd International Conference on Circular Economy, Renewable Energies, and Green Hydrogen in Africa in Windhoek. We spoke to the Director of Science and Technology at SASSCAL, Dr. Budzanani Tacheba.

23 October, 2025

Namibia

SASSCAL hosts green hydrogen and renewable energy conference

Delivering the welcoming remarks, Dr. Budzanani Tacheba, Director of Science & Technology at SASSCAL (Photo: LinkedIn) The Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) hosted the 3rd International Conference on Circular Economy, Renewable Energies, and Green Hydrogen in Africa this week at the Mercure Hotel in Windhoek. The event, organised in collaboration with the University of Rostock and funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of […]

23 October, 2025

Business / Economics

Southern African Science Service Centre Hosts Green Hydrogen Conference in Windhoek

(Photo: SASSCAL Facebook Page) The Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management is hosting the 3rd International Conference on Circular Economy, Renewable Energies, and Green Hydrogen in Africa in Windhoek today and tomorrow. Experts from the region and abroad will discuss sustainable industrialisation, renewable energy, and green hydrogen development. The conference will conclude with a visit to the Daures Green Hydrogen Village and Cleanergy […]

21 October, 2025

Environment

Southern Africa Climate Tipping Points

By Vitalio Angula, via Evergreen News Global Warming and Climate Change could lead to the total collapse of Namibia’s Cattle Industry if global temperatures exceed 3 Degrees Celsius in the second half of the 21st Century experts at a Southern African Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) meeting held in the capital Windhoek recently revealed. The TIPPECC Co-Design and Research Dissemination Meeting with […]

2 July, 2024