President Geingob on Wednesday officially launched and unveiled the Peugeot-Namibia plant at Walvis Bay (New Industrial Area, Farm 23, Wanderdunen, Trekope, NDC Building). This follows a signed investment agreement facilitating the joint-venture agreement between Groupe PSA and Namibia Development Corporation (NDC) to assemble OPEL and PEUGEOT vehicles in Walvis Bay. The assembly anticipates achieving a…
The Namibian Hockey Union (NHU) recently hosted the 2018 Bank Windhoek Junior Hockey Development League awards ceremony at the Windhoek Gymnasium Private School in Windhoek. Winning medals were awarded to the age groups 10, 12 and 14 years in both the boys and the girls section A and B divisions. Saint Paul’s College won the…
Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) has just returned from a marketing and networking session in Ghana aimed at luring Ghanaian visitors to their resorts. The event took place on 30 November 2018 in conjunction with Air Namibia’s local representative who gave attendees the benefits of flying with Air Namibia. The networking session came at the backdrop…
The project consists presently of 10 framed posters featuring children that were born premature in the hospital and have overcome their heroic struggle to thrive in daily life, as well as plaques reflecting the poster’s sponsor. Photographs were taken and sponsored by local photographers, Aneen Graupe Photography, Christian Stiebahl Photography and Melanie de la Hunt…
Childhood cancer is on the increase in Namibia and that places a financial burden on families, the Chief Executive Officer of the Cancer Association of Namibia (CAN), Rolf Hansen has said. Hansen was speaking at the handover of a N.dollars 250 000 donation by GEKA Pharma to Children Fighting Cancer (CHICA), CAN’s wing focusing on…
Standard Bank Namibia on Wednesday donated N.dollars 641 000 to the Forum for African Women Educationalists in Namibia (Fawena) through the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture. Standard Bank’s Head of Marketing and Communication, Magreth Mengo said Fawena remains one of the key corporate social investment beneficiaries of the Standard Bank Namibia Foundation, which is…
Over 250 inmates across the country successfully completed ‘Money Map’ training sessions hosted by Bank Windhoek and the Adonai Trust. The sessions started in Walvis Bay in September with 86 inmates and were later rolled out to Elizabeth Nepembe, Divundu and Keetmanshoop in November 2018. A media statement on the programme issued by Bank Windhoek…
Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) and Huawei smartphone giant made a donation of N. dollars 10 million to the Buy-a-Brick Initiative here on Monday. Speaking at the event, MTC Chief Human and Corporate Affairs Officer, Tim Ekandjo expressed sadness over the harsh reality of housing that many Namibians are enduring. “It is earnestly disheartening that after…