The range of options available to investors can often be overwhelming. Where do you even begin? To answer this question it can be useful to break your investment decisions into three simplified layers: 1. The ‘why layer’ tries to establish exactly what your investment objectives are. It attempts to answer the question as to [...]
Kehad Snydewel - Managing Director of Green Enterprise Solutions By: Ester Kamati Kehad Snydewel is the managing director of Green enterprise solutions, a company founded in 2010 which provides information and communication technology (ICT) services to Namibian companies and government institutions. The company is owned [...]
January is over, and we are just getting the hang of February. The kids are back at school, the gyms and roads are full, and everyone is finally back to their daily ways of doing things. With the young ones back at school, the learning doesn’t have to end when the school bell rings- [...]
Reason is probably one of the biggest distinctions between humans and animals. It has given us the ability to learn from different circumstances and to adapt over time. These lessons sit deep in our subconscious minds and instinct / emotions /intuition allows us to react quickly without having to reason ourselves out of every situation, [...]
Until now it had never been difficult to answer this question because the words ‘’forward’’, ‘’onward’’ or ‘’upward’’ were mostly used to describe Namibia’s economic growth and outlook. Until now, the measures of progress showed Namibia improving consistently despite the challenges presented by her geography and complicated history. Real per capita income has increased, unemployment [...]
In last month’s issue we unpacked the origins of the current economic crisis gripping Namibia. We recounted the combination of external factors and domestic policy errors that contributed to the economy overheating, which has resulted in the depressed climate we find ourselves in. The latest quarterly GDP update (Q2) from the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) [...]
INTRODUCTION: Since 2013, the NTA has collected training levy funds from industry and now they are able to give a significant amount back in the form of salary support (N$ 30,000.00 per trainee per level per year) and training fee support (N$ 23,600.00 per trainee per level per year) to employers who hire young [...]
14 January 2020 Renowned film school, the New York Film Academy opened its doors to MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF) alumni Mainala Silondwa (Zambia), Gilbert Bassey (Nigeria) and Hillary “Hillax” Lanogwa (Kenya). The alumni, one from each of MultiChoice Talent Factory’s three campuses in West, East and Southern Africa, were selected as top of their [...]
