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07 Aug

Beyond donating a blanket

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The Time Traveler: Hugh Ellis Over a thousand people were made homeless, at least one person killed, and over 200 homes destroyed when a shack fire tore through the settlement of Twaloloka in Walvis Bay on the night of 26th July. Since then, the response from Good Samaritans has been inspiring. Social media appeals and GoFundMe accounts have been started. Businesses and NGOs offered their premises as collection points and their vehicles as transport. Namibians of all walks of life have donated blankets, clothes and building materials. The response from middle-class Namibians, in particular, makes me a bit less pessimistic…
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07 Aug

Couch Kitten: I will graduate when I finish

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Clementine Tjameya Every senior student has at least that one aunt, uncle, granny or just random community member who is always so pressed about when you are finishing your studies. But can someone please tell these busy buddies that things are tough here at varsity. You can’t go around randomly stressing other people’s children with questions like, “When are you graduating?” Is there a time line set for when I am supposed to finish my studies? And even if there is who says I want to follow it? This is not high school. We are seeing flames. In here, we…
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Eino Emvula appointed Ninety One MD
07 Aug

Eino Emvula appointed Ninety One MD

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Staff Writer Ninety One, the asset manager born out of the rebranding of Investec Asset Management Namibia has appointed Eino Emvula to the position of Managing Director for Namibia & Africa, excluding South Africa effective 1 February 2021. Emvula who replaces James Hatuikulipi, who headed the business under its former name, will join Ninety One from Namibia Asset Management (NAM), where he was Chief Executive Officer. According to the company , over the past decade, Emvula has been instrumental in growing Namibia Stock Exchange listed NAM into the second largest third-party asset manager in Namibia after Ninety One. “I am…
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Philip Chapman appointed new RMB CEO …as Selma Kapeng takes up Group Treasurer post
04 Aug

Philip Chapman appointed new RMB CEO …as Selma Kapeng takes up Group Treasurer post

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Staff Writer Philip Chapman has been appointed as the new CEO of RMB Namibia replacing Conrad Dempsey who was appointed FirstRand Namibia Group CEO Designate effective 1 July 2020 , takeover reigns from Sarel van Zyl who retires on 30 September 2020. Chapman as part of his appointment which is subject to regulatory approval , will also serve on the FirstRand Namibia Executive Committee. Chapman previously headed up RMB Corporate Credit in Namibia, and was also RMB Credit co-head regionally and most recently headed FNB Commercial and Business Banking. “With Phillip’s experience both in RMB and FNB Commercial we look…
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MTN, The GridOnline sign deal
04 Aug

MTN, The GridOnline sign deal

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Staff Writer MTN Namibia has signed its first commercial contract for bulk data transmission services, provided by The GridOnline, a NamPower owned company, a move expected to grow Namibia’s ICT sector. “This significant event demonstrates another example of corporates consolidating efforts to propel the national and Southern African ICT sector forward and stabilising the framework within which development can be streamlined. The availability of reliable and affordable telecommunications is seen by both organisations as a fundamental pillar for the growth of a multitude of sectors, including education, trade and industry, medical services, tourism and entertainment, engineering and manufacturing, infrastructure development…
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Choppies plans to exit 4 countries
04 Aug

Choppies plans to exit 4 countries

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Staff Writer Choppies is exiting South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique having suffered running shortfalls, worsened by fraudulent activities, that contributed to the P139 million loss unveiled last week for the half-year ended December 31, 2019. Choppies has 88 stores in South Africa and first entered the country in 2008 The regional grocer will focus its attention on its cash cow, Botswana, as well as Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia, but rather than its previous aggression in expanding its footprint, Choppies now plans a “careful, phased” approach. “We are exiting from a few markets where the growth has been coming at…
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COVID-19 drives rentals down . . . as Ondangwa rentals contract -27.4 % y/y
04 Aug

COVID-19 drives rentals down . . . as Ondangwa rentals contract -27.4 % y/y

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Staff Writer This economic weakness is reflected in FNB’s latest FNB Rental Index, which shows a 12-month average growth of 0.3 percent year on year (y/y) at the end of June 2020, following the short-lived growth momentum of 0.9 percent and 0.8 percent y/y seen in April and May 2020 respectively. The development has brought the national weighted average rent price to N$7022 at the end of June 2020 from N$7404 in June 2019. “Namibia has seen an unprecedented spike in the number of new COVID-19 cases over the last three months, signaling that the worst economic effects of the…
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31 Jul

Couch Kitten: All good things come in time

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Wetumwene Shikage There are many things we wish to accomplish or at least to tick off from our “to do" lists. We are impatient for success or for our desires and we forget that there is a time for everything. Everything cannot be done at once. It is important to take your time to understand that sometimes, some things come before other things. Some things don’t even come at all. While you take your time working to get what you want, learn along the way. Sometimes all you want to be is your best self. You must not be what…
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31 Jul

A method in his madness

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The Time Traveler: Hugh Ellis The rapper Kanye West’s decision to run for US President, announced via tweet on the fourth of July, set sections of the Internet on fire. As did a strange rally a couple of weeks ago. Kanye showed up on stage in a bullet-proof vest, explained he’d wanted his wife Kim Kardashian to have an abortion until God told him personally to get with the program, said that family planning clinics have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to ‘do the Devil’s work’, made out presidential hopeful Joe Biden to be a boring loser, and…
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31 Jul

COIVD-19 is real; do people get it yet?

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Jackie Wilson Asheeke A teacher at the Coast tested positive for the pandemic. Yet, the risk-averse principal took no urgent steps to protect the students, other teachers and staff that were exposed. He said that he was waiting for ‘instructions’. COVID-19 does not need instructions or paperwork; it takes charge without permission. This incident and similar stories force me to wonder if, at this late date, people understand that the pandemic is real. The school principal is claiming bureaucracy as his ‘excuse’ for inaction. He says he must be ‘told’ to close the school or take other actions. He’s waiting…
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