Cabinet has approved a wave of strategic international agreements, education initiatives, and regional hosting duties.

Former South African Public Protector Prof Thuli Madonsela has urged employers to work with the government to address South Africa's immigration challenges, warning that violence against undocumented migrants could harm trade, investor confidence and the country's standing in Africa.

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah wants the newly established Namibia-South Africa Business Council to turn the tide on the widening trade imbalance by driving shared investment between the two countries.

Business leaders from South Africa and Namibia used the Namibia-South Africa Business Forum to urge their governments to back a new joint business council with concrete measures on industrialisation, green energy and faster, cheaper cross‑border trade.

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and her South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, have urged the private sector to seize opportunities created through closer regional integration. 

Four Namibian women from Oshikoto Region who returned home from Vredendal in South Africa’s Western Cape following anti-illegal immigration protests have thanked the government for arranging their safe repatriation but say they now face unemployment and need assistance to restart their lives.

Fourteen Namibian citizens have returned home from neighbouring South Africa amid anti-foreigner sentiments with only a few possessions. 

Issued with emergency travel certificates, the group of returnees were voluntarily repatriated from Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape Province. 

The U.S. Embassy in Windhoek will no longer issue visas from 1 August. 

Applicants looking to travel to the United States will now have to travel to South Africa, either Johannesburg or Cape Town, for visa services.

Presidents Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Cyril Ramaphosa have challenged businesses in Namibia and South Africa to turn decades of diplomacy into tangible economic opportunities, calling for stronger partnerships that create jobs, drive industrialisation and improve the lives of ordinary citizens.

Namibia and South Africa would use digital technology to track the implementation of bilateral decisions taken at the just-concluded Bi-National Commission meeting.

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says the decision is informed by the urgency in addressing unemployment in both countries.