BEST OF AFRICA AWARDS – GROOTBERG LODGE
The #Khoadi //Hoas Conservancy in cooperation with Grootberg Lodge and Journeys Namibia crowned Best of Africa in the Sustainable Top 100 Destination Awards. The accolade is recognition for the successfully implementation of solutions for human-wildlife conflict in the local community. 4 March 2020 – Windhoek, Namibia – The Sustainable Destination Awards is supported by Green Destinations, […]
DO I BUY OR DO I RENT?
So, you don’t want to pay off someone else’s bond, right? Intuitively this thinking makes sense and it has been the reason for many people wanting to own a property. However, rental expense never goes away, even if you stay in the house you bought. “How can this be?”, you might ask. You first need […]
HOLLARD & ROSSING FOUNDATION SUPPORTS NAMIBIAN YOUTH
24 February 2020, The Rossing Foundation, Windhoek. In 1978 the Rossing Foundation was established with a clear directive, to facilitate and implement various educational projects across Namibia, projects aimed at making a fundamental difference to the lives of the people living in those communities. The goal was also to empower our people by giving them […]
COMMUNITY CONSERVATION FUND OF NAMIBIA (CCFN) SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED
13 February 2020 The Community Conservation Fund of Namibia (CCFN) was successfully launched in the capital today The launch of this much needed conservation fund takes Namibia’s flagship conservation programme to the next level. The creation of this fund is aimed at reducing the community based natural resources management (CBNRM) sector’s dependence on external donor […]
NAMIGREEN E-WASTE RECYCLING RATES DOUBLES IN NAMIBIA
Local e-waste joint-venture, NamiGreen, recycled the equivalent to 10,000 computer monitors in 2019 – a 100 % increase from previous year. 2019 was a good year in terms of recycling for Namibia. Increased awareness amongst Namibian citizens and companies contributed to a 100 % growth in the amount of electronic waste recycled. In 2019, […]
RUGBY RULES FOR PROTECTING YOUR CAPITAL
Sometimes it helps to start by focusing on what something is not. Leaving your cash under the mattress is one of the surest ways to cause a permanent loss of capital. No, not necessarily due to burglary on your premises, but rather the simple facts of economics. If one works with a long-term average inflation rate […]
MOVING ON SWIFTLY
As February breaks and salaried employees give a collective sigh of relief after a long-awaited January payday, it is worth taking a moment to do a quick recap of 2019 and begin planning for the year ahead. Few would argue that 2019 was a far more tedious year than even 2017 or 2018, at least […]
LAYERS OF INVESTING – Where to begin?
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 why […]
EMBRACING THE IDEA OF GOING FULL DIGITAL
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 and managed by previously disadvantaged Namibians and has the long term objective to sustain a Namibian business which makes […]
WHERE EDUCATION MEETS ENTERTAINMENT: UNMISSABLE KIDS’ CONTENT ON DSTV
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- it […]