Finance Minister Erica Shafudah will table the budget tomorrow in the National Assembly.
 
The national budget outlines key policy directions, spending priorities, and economic interventions that will directly impact households, businesses, and public institutions.
 
The 2025/2026 national budget was N$106.3 billion, presented under the theme "Beyond 35, for a Prosperous Future."
 
The largest portion of it went to the Ministry of Health and Social Services with N$12.3 billion, Ministry of Education, Innovation, Arts, and Culture with N$24.8 billion, while the Ministry of Finance received N$14.6 billion.

Tomorrow, Shafudah will once again set the fiscal strategy for the 2026-2027 financial year, outlining, among others, spending priorities and revenue measures.
 
The Ministry's Public Relations Officer, Wilson Shikoto, said it is important for citizens to align themselves with the government's development priorities to have a better picture of the coming financial year.
 
“The importance of that is because you'd want to hear it from the horse's mouth and also understand the key areas that the government will be focusing on, particularly issues of the priorities on infrastructure. We know we've been focusing on education and so many things that the minister will be announcing in Parliament."
 
Shikoto also called on journalists to make deliberate efforts to break down complex economic terminologies for ordinary Namibians to clearly understand what the budget means to them.
 
“So obviously for us as the ministry, we also look at the basic understanding that people have when we talk.  “Therefore, most of the time, when we need to get into the details of preparation and stakeholder engagement, we don’t actually do so. It's only this year that we even started popularising on our social media the engagement that we had with the stakeholders, government offices, and other stakeholders, like in the financial institution and stuff like that. It's just to really understand what their opinion is, and then from there we'll be able to make up.”
 
The focus of last year’s budget review was largely on adjusting fiscal plans in response to a more challenging cost-effective landscape that emerged after the main budget was tabled earlier in March last year.
 
During that midterm review, Shafudah announced a reallocation of N$1.2 billion.