Namibia: Job Losses ‘Unavoidable’ Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

[New Era] The local tourism sector says it is expecting a significant number of job losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Retrenchments in the sector and job losses are simply unavoidable, the Hospitality Association of Namibia (HAN) said this week. “We have already seen many companies forced to take brave and bold decisions in an attempt to keep businesses afloat,” HAN CEO Gitta Paetzold told New Era. “It is impossible to keep full staff complements for services and work that has currently officially been banned wor