In order to liven up the environment in which prisoners are confined to, especially over the looming family holidays, pupils from the two schools will draw 1 000 handmade Christmas cards for approximately 1 000 inmates of the Windhoek Correctional Facility while Shoprite supermarket will give them 1 000 gift packs. Managing Director of Shoprite…
Nedbank has shown its commitment towards conservation and sustainable development in Namibia not only by securing the funds for our Go Green Fund but by teaming up with the Namibia Nature Foundation (NNF) and creating a real partnership that delivers. This type of institutional collaboration is vitally important to assist in good biodiversity conservation outcomes…
According to a statement from the company on Monday, Green Enterprise Solutions developed the AEIMS for the Directorate of Adult Education (DAE) to boost the literacy and numeracy skills of disadvantaged adults and out-of-school youth. This is to enable them to contribute more effectively to national development, the company said. The system enables easy retrieval…
Over the past couple of years, technological transformation in the financial services sector and especially banks, has been tremendous with the advent of electronic and cell phone banking, apps, digital money transfers, digital payments of third parties, card payments and the like. FNB Namibia has been a forerunner in many regards with products and services…
On the 10th of November 2017, the Namibia Primary School, located in Katutura’s Herero location, held an inaugural ceremony for their school’s boundary wall and security fencing as donated by B2Gold Namibia. B2Gold funded the boundary wall and security fencing through their CSR programme, under the pillar of education, thus supporting national government’s efforts to…
Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) in partnership with three of the other four Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation (KAZA TFCA) countries, namely Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe have come up with an exciting route earmarked at promoting tourism within the KAZA area. The conservation area is unique in that it includes the Okavango Delta, which is the world’s…
The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) recorded a sizeable increase of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) between the years 2000 and last year. Of the more than 15 000 SMEs that were registered during this period, 605 were financed by commercial banks. Current statistics reveal that a total number of 1 719 registered…
These are members of the Shack Dwellers Federation and Namibia Housing Action Group who do not have houses, joined by members of the public and business community. Everyone used shovels to shift sand alongside a bulldozer. Erongo Regional Governor Cleophas Mutjavikua initiated the idea of volunteerism to cut the labour costs of servicing land. Brickmaking…
MTN Namibia has welcomed a new Board of Directors headed by prominent local businessman Mr Vaino Nghipondoka, owner and Chairperson of Profile Investment Holdings. This appointment follows a strategic multi-million dollar transaction, which saw Profile Technologies acquire 30 per cent shareholding into MTN Business Namibia this year, paving the way for MTN Namibia evolution. In…
The 2017 Bank Windhoek Cancer Apple Project has yet again set a new record after an astounding N$3 million was raised in aid of the Cancer Association of Namibia (CAN). The Bank Windhoek Cancer Apple Project was established in 2000 to create awareness about cancer and educate Namibians to protect themselves against this illness. With…