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Ninety One makes senior appointment
16 Feb

Ninety One makes senior appointment

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Staff Writer Omri Oliver has been appointed as Client Manager for Ninety One, formerly Investec Asset Management Namibia. Until recently, Oliver was Head of Distribution for the Corporate segment at Old Mutual Namibia, which included all group risk, smooth bonus investments, preservation funds and life annuity products. “I am excited to work for a company like Ninety One. It ranks as one of the few – if not the only – Southern African investment firms to have achieved success both here at home and on a global scale. This bears testament to the quality of leadership, culture and investment expertise…
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Changing gears over Air Namibia
16 Feb

Changing gears over Air Namibia

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CHAMWE KAIRA The liquidation of Air Namibia is a sad episode in post-independence Namibia. The national flag carrier is gone, jobs have been lost and the ripple effects will be felt across the economic and social fabric of the country for a long time. The country is already facing a depressing period with the COVID 19 pandemic and the economic recession, the Air Namibia shutdown adds to the misery. The loss of jobs at the airline adds to unemployment figures caused by companies shutting down due to the pandemic and recession. Employment figures released by the Ministry of Labour, Industrial…
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15 Feb

Ancestral land rights undisputable, but beware of Capitalistic hegemony

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Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro The Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Ancestral Land Rights Claims and Restitution, now in the public domain, is reaffirming claims to and of ancestral land rights by a section of the indigenous people of Namibia as an undeniable historical fact. A historical fact which the propertied class in Namibia, and their lackeys, have been portraying, twist and spinning as fiction. The indigenous people were dispossessed of their land in the name of Colonialism and Capitalism. Consequently they were and most are still displaced internally, and externally in the Diaspora of Botswana and South Africa, among many…
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15 Feb

The Time Traveler: The rape epidemic

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Hugh Ellis It makes me sad and angry that I have to wrote yet another column on sexual violence in Namibia. A 53-year-old teacher at Jan Mohr Secondary School in Windhoek has been arrested for the rape of a 19-year old schoolboy. It took several days for the case to be reported, and several more for the arrest to be made. It is reported that the same teacher was accused of a similar crime seven years ago, but was allowed to continue in his employment at the school. It the wake of this incident, reports have emerged of other teachers…
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AR land issue judgement pushed forward
13 Feb

AR land issue judgement pushed forward

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Maria Hamutenya Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement is set to hear whether President Hage Geingob will have to comply with an agreement he signed with the organisation in 2015 after the High Court postponed its judgement to next Tuesday, 16 February. AR Lawyer, Kadhila Amoomo, said the judgement was still to be finalised by Justice Orben Sibeya. The government in 2015 struck a deal with AR leader, Job Amupanda, to service 200 000 plots on urban land countrywide. Amoomo said it was an interlocutory application, “it is not fatal, whether we win or lose, it does not stop the case” adding…
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Turkish Onurair almost saved Air Namibia
13 Feb

Turkish Onurair almost saved Air Namibia

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Andrew Kathindi Public Enterprises Minister, Leon Jooste, revealed that Air Namibia was almost taken over by Turkish airliner, Onurair, prior to Cabinet approving voluntary liquidation. Jooste said government sent invitations to airliners to try and save the national flag carrier, however nothing transpired. “We were asked to write to all airlines currently operating to Namibia and those that we know are intending to come including this company. No formal response or request for further engagements were received from any of them,” Jooste told Windhoek Observer. Onurair had shown interest in taking over the beleaguered Namibian airliner. According to documents from…
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12 Feb

CRAN, the year that was

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Heinrich Mihe Gaomab II In a world where technology is urging the tides of change forward, Namibia, like all other countries, has been forced to up its game to ensure that regulations are current, relevant and serves the needs and expectations of Namibia’s information and communication technology (ICT) consumers. With this, the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia’s (CRAN) mantra of a high quality, accessible and affordable communications technological need for all Namibians has become even more important today. Amidst the unforeseen, unprecedented and catastrophic Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), Authorities such as CRAN have become increasingly crucial to making online interactions safe,…
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Solid, sustainable support for aspiring entrepreneurs
11 Feb

Solid, sustainable support for aspiring entrepreneurs

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Many Namibians know the hardship of growing up in difficult conditions, but also the power of having an aspiration to rise above this and succeed in life. MultiChoice Namibia, as a company rooted in its local communities, understands this all too well, and aims to use entertainment as a means to enrich the lives of people, particularly those facing difficult circumstances. One of the ways in which the company does this, is by enabling hard working, enthusiastic citizens with an interest in technology to pursue a career with MultiChoice Namibia as installers. Not only does this provide a sustainable income,…
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FirstRand Namibia breathes life into the arts
10 Feb

FirstRand Namibia breathes life into the arts

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Staff Writer “Art is something that makes you breathe a different kind of happiness.” – Conrad Dempsey, CEO: FirstRand Namibia. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has not discriminated and still does not do so: The lives and livelihoods of all and sundry have been affected and altered. There is consensus, though, that the creative industry bore the brunt of the impact of regulations imposed to curb the further spread of the virus. Acknowledging this and in accordance with its responsibility to support and plough back into the local economy, FirstRand Namibia took the intentional decision to support the country’s creative industry.…
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06 Feb

Witherto Diasporan reparation movement? tribute to Cde “Hosea” Kamutuua Kandorozu

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Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro He became so fond wearing the red traditional regalia of the Red Flag from Namibia from where his great grand forebears, 114 years this year had fled, escaping colonial German genocide against the Ovaherero, Ovammbanderu and Nama. Red in the quest for his traditional roots. For Red became the symbol of resistance of his people against German imperialism. To this day when it has become a symbol in the seeming never-ending quest for the redemption of the souls of his ancestors through reparation. A quest which has very much has come to be his embodiment and that of…
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