The Namibia Broadcasting Corporation (nbc) has been commended for its collaboration and engagement with regional broadcasters.

Its role during the mourning period for the death of the late President Hage Geingob became more pronounced when regional and international broadcasters across Africa and the world had to take its feed to broadcast to their people.

The Executive Director of the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, Dr. Audrin Mathe says the nbc is admired in the region for the way it does things.

The nbc assisted in the training of the early crop of television journalists and anchors for the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation and the Botswana Broadcasting Corporation, Dr. Mathe, who also worked at the public broadcaster at the time, remembers.

Namibia also has the freest media in Africa, ranked number one on the continent.

"They thought that because you are a public institution, you are limited in what you say. One of the reasons Namibia is at the top of Africa is because of the plurality of views, whether they are publicly or privately driven. I think that has been on the agenda."

He further commended the nbc for media diplomacy in the region by signing regional broadcasting agreements and also for leading the Southern Africa Broadcasting Association for more than ten years.

He further said that the nbc's broadcast over the past three weeks on the mourning and the funeral of President Hage Geingob showed that the public sector has come full circle. The nbc, he said, came to demonstrate that there is nothing out of reach that cannot be done by the public sector.