The Chamber of Mines held a Special General Meeting on 30 August 2022. The Special General Meeting was to elect the Second Vice President of the Chamber to fill the ad hoc vacancy created by the recent resignation of the First Vice President.The Chamber wishes to congratulate Mr. George Botshiwe for being officially elected as […]
Namdeb’s CEO, Mr Riaan Burger, and COO Mr Jurgen Jacob recently hosted employee engagement sessions across all levels of the business. The sessions were aimed at ensuring alignment on key business requirements. Furthermore, the sessions included involving employees through a creative participatory process on envisaging what a future Namdeb would look like, given the new […]
2021 Chamber Annual Review The Chamber of Mines Annual Review captures industry highlights, performance and new developments each year. It also provides stakeholders with full access to detailed information on operational and ESG aspects of our members’ activities, and their financial information. Chamber President’s Report for 2021 At the AGM held on 27 April 2022, […]
The recently released 2021 Fraser Institute Survey of Mining Companies Report shows that the country improved marginally on the Policy Perception Index (PPI) by 0.94 points, but cites Namibia as being one of three African jurisdictions to improve on this score. Globally, Namibia improved on her overall PPI ranking, gaining 18 places from 47th position […]
2020 Chamber Annual Review The Chamber of Mines Annual Review captures industry highlights, performance and new developments each year. It also provides our stakeholders with full access to detailed information on operational and Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) aspects of our members’ activities, and their financial information. To read the full 2020 Annual Review, please […]
On 26th March 2021, The Namibian’s Spotlight was published intending to provide perspectives on whether the fishing industry and proposed marine phosphate mining industry could co-exist in Namibia. The author of the articles endeavoured to provide a fair representation and a balanced perspective. However, a number of the statements attributed to the representative for the […]
Mining Industry Review for 2020 Delivered by Outgoing President of the Chamber At the AGM held on 21 April 2021, The outgoing President of the Chamber of Mines delivered his final President’s Report for 2020. The report higlights the impact of Covid-19 on the mining sector in 2020, its contribution to the Namibian economy and […]
The Southern African Resource Watch (SARW) commissioned a research paper that investigates certain aspects of Namibia’s mineral legislative and policy framework. According to the research, the mining sector is guilty of wide- spread illicit financial flows, tax-base erosion and price manipulation. These allegations, however, are based on flawed assumptions and inaccuracies. The authors of the […]
The Canadian based Fraser Institute released its 2020 Report on the Annual Survey of Mining Companies towards the end of last month. The report shows that Namibia only marginally increased her score on the overall Investment Attractiveness Index and several other jurisdictions performed far better. Namibia’s underperformance on the Investment Attractiveness Index was driven by […]
CEO of the Namibian Chamber of Environment and a well-respected Namibian environmental scientist, Dr. Chris Brown, shares his views on the impacts of marine phosphate activities on the surrounding environment in a series of short video clips. Video 1 of 11 Has Marine Phosphate Mining Completed an Environmental Impact Assessment? Video 2 of 11 Why […]
