Government is expected to announce the voluntary liquidation of Namibia's national airline on Thursday leaving 636 staff members unemployed. Air Namibia's workers NBC Online spoke to said they were informed today that they will receive a basic salary for the next 12 months but will not receive any benefits. Some workers will not even have to go into the office tomorrow morning. Others will wrap up as soon as clients have been informed of the liquidation and that flights have been grounded. On 29 January, lawyers representing Air Namibia and Belgian company ChallengeAir SA, who applied to the Namibian High Court to have the carrier liquidated, reached an agreement shortly before the liquidation proceedings were to start in the High Court in Windhoek. The board resigned on 3 February.