The Namibian government will continue to encourage and support local investors to actively participate in the energy sector.

This was reiterated by the Minister of Mines and Energy, Tom Alweendo, at an information-sharing session at Keetmanshoop on the discovery of oil in the ||Kharas Region.

There is an urgent need to mobilize resources for the Namibia Institute of Mining and Technology, NIMT, to accommodate more students.

The Namibian Police did not show up on Friday for the NIMT Northern Campus employees' demonstration in Tsumeb.

However, this did not stop the employees from marching to NIMT to hand over their petition in relation to their unpaid December salaries.

Employees of the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology have not received their salaries for December.

Workers held a countrywide demonstration to demand their salary payments.

At Arandis, workers marched from the shopping centre to one of the two campuses, at the town.

Amidst the labour unrest at NIMT, Executive Director Ralph Bussel stressed that the entity solely relies on the Namibia Training Authority and Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund, to support its operations.