Standard Bank has recently welcomed two new Heads to its executive team. Anne Juuko has been appointed to the position of Head, Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB). She replaces the current CIB Head Amit Mohan who will be moving to Europe and complete his tenure at the Bank at the end of February 2018. Prior…
Intelligence Support Against Poaching (ISAP)’s multipronged approaches help protect Namibia’s endangered species, including rhino, elephants and lions. This valued member of Namibia’s anti-poaching task force gathers information through its digital platforms, the 555 55 SMS Poaching Hotline and personnel on the ground. It then processes the information into intelligence to be used by anti-poaching authorities…
The PDM has noted with grave concern the purchase of the luxurious Oropoko Lodge by the Namibia Defence Force for N$45 million of taxpayers’ money. This lodge was a going concern that brought money into Namibia’s struggling economy. It is no secret that tourism contributes the most to Namibia’s GDP at this stage, and the…
Blue Bankers are getting ready to show their support to the Writers of Hope initiative. The Writers of Hope initiative which was launched in February 2017, aids various schools by collecting and donating much needed stationary to them. It is the brainchild of Hugs 4 Christ and the Bankers Association of Namibia (BAN). “At Standard…
The immense interest in cryptocurrencies was evident on Thursday, 15 February 2018, when over 400 people attended an information session on Bitcoin and its supporting blockchain technology hosted by Bank Windhoek. Cryptocurrency expert Gavin Marshall from Blockchain Academy in South Africa, enthralled the audience with the origin and workings of Bitcoin and emphasised that its…
Bank Windhoek is proud to announce that commencing Monday, 19 February 2018, all its branches countrywide will start buying and selling Chinese yuan (CNY) notes. Yuan notes will be traded in addition to the current range of foreign currency notes which are exchanged at 0% commission. Bank Windhoek will accept denominations of 10, 20, 50…
Less than six months after the third launch of Standard Bank’s Buy-a-Brick initiative, in partnership with the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SDFN), most of the commissioned houses are reaching completion. The Bank’s flagship initiative, which was initially launched in October 2015 with the aim of helping in alleviating the housing shortage in the country…
Government will fulfil financial and material promises made to the late former Prime Minister and opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Sunday. Addressing mourners at Tsvangirai’s home where he had gone to pay his condolences, President Mnangagwa said he would see to it that pledges he made to…
Following 11 years of wrongful imprisonment after suffering an obstetric emergency, the Salvadoran Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) and the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety commuted a Salvadoran woman’s sentence and released her today. In their decision, the court stated that there was insufficient scientific evidence to determine that she took any voluntary actions…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday mourned the death of opposition political leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, saying he would be accorded a state assisted burial while lauding him as a fearless fighter for the rights of workers and democracy in his later life as a politician. Tsvangirai, 65, succumbed to cancer of the colon on Wednesday after…