O&L Leisure welcomes you

After months of hardships and the most challenging time that the sector has seen to date (with a 14% contribution to the GDP, a significant number of jobs have been lost in the Namibian tourism sector), and in response to the Minister of Industrialization, Trade and SME Development, Lucia Iipumbu to support local, O&L Leisure…

Swimming returns this weekend

The first installment of the Bank Windhoek Long Course Gala for the year will take place this coming weekend at the Olympia swimming pool in Windhoek. The swimming event will see contestants compete in 850 events. Swakopmund and Oranjemund will simultaneously host their Bank Windhoek Long Course Gala in their respective towns. Results from all…

Paypulse waives ‘send money fees’

In a bid to encourage contactless transactions, Standard Bank has decided to waive the fees charged to customers sending money to a PayPulse wallet via PayPulse. The waiver of ‘Send Money’ fee has been in effect since 1 October 2020. Standard Bank’s Head of Digital Transformation, Rejoice Itembu said the fee waiver is part of…

Standard Bank online business talk series

Standard Bank, in partnership with the Namibia Economist, has launched a series of online events to inspire SMEs and prospective business owners and provide them with guidance, mentoring, and management training. Owners of micro, small and medium enterprises face an array of obstacles, not only when they start out as entrepreneurs but also through all…

CAN hosts first online pink music extravaganza

The Cancer Association of Namibia (WO30) on Saturday successfully hosted their first “Living Hope Online Music Extravaganza” that replaced the annual Hats and Roses gala breakfast for women due to current Covid-19 regulations. A donation of N.dollars 70 000 by Alexander Forbes Financial Services enabled CAN to host the online event and help sustain the…

Trust at the Core of New World of Banking

Digitisation has certainly impacted consumers’ need for branch banking, and who knows, the next generation may well be the one to bear witness to its eventual disappearance into oblivion. The period that lapses between one industrial revolution into the next has also been heavily curtailed because of the technological advancements of the last decade. For…