As the new Head of Balance Sheet Management at Nedbank Namibia, Taleni Nengola leads a team of four, and she is responsible for ensuring strategic balance sheet management, monitoring liquidity risk, capital management, and interest rate risk in the banking book as well as foreign exchange risk.
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Sanlam Bridge grows local businesses with seed capital
The winners of the Sanlam entrepreneurial support programme, the Sanlam Bridge, are Moonsnacks Investment, K-12 EdTech Inc, Betterpack Manufacturing, Brightlight Agritech and Superfly Bio converters.
Sacu to refocus on development of value chains…as it prioritises financing for industrialisation
The Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) member states have agreed to refocus the bloc’s work programme on industrialisation through the development of regional value chains, export, and investment promotion.
Agriculture sector not spared from Russia-Ukraine conflict
The agriculture, forestry and fishing sector has not been spared from the pressure of market distortions resulting from the Covid-19 calamity.
Opinion – FIFA Normalisation Committee: The Namibian experience
FIFA normalisation committees have been appointed on all continents.
Opinion – The need to localise our education system
Who goes to school? Who succeeds in school and a nation’s development depends on the localisation of education?
Legal aid halts murderer’s appeal
The lack of legal representation for a pensioner currently serving a life sentence for killing his girlfriend when she tried breaking up with him has caused a bump in his appeal.
Nauyoma ropes PG, Ndeitunga in squatter law challenge
Land activist Dimbulukeni Nauyoma wants to rope in the prosecutor general Martha Imalwa and police chief Sebastian Ndeitunga in court proceedings, as he challenges the legality of the Squatter Proclamation AG, 21 of 1985.
Traditional leaders hail chief Kooper
Tributes have continued to pour in for the late chief Simon Petrus Kooper of the Kai-// Khaun tribe at Hoachanas.
Peace, migration issues top Nordic-Africa meeting
The youth panel, on the recently concluded Nordic-Africa foreign ministers’ meeting (NAFM 2022) in Helsinki, Finland, favoured peace and security as the overall and most urgent matter affecting them, making specific reference to northern Africa, Ukraine and Mozambique.