Besides providing the local fashion industry with models for various fashion campaigns, Jinels Models Namibia empowers their models to become the best versions of themselves. Owner Jenny Shipanga (22) loved modelling from a young age, and decided to establish the agency in April 2019 to groom young people into professional models, and to find modelling opportunities for them.
Entries close today for fashion designers, make-up artists and hairstylists to pitch their businesses to a panel of judges and investors, and stand a chance to win N$ 50 000. Fashion Pitch Night will this year take place for the second year running as part of the annual MTC Windhoek Fashion Week (MWFW), which is set for 1-7 November in the capital.
The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) is a defined pension fund that provides guaranteed pension benefits to its large membership base. As a government pension fund, membership to the fund is compulsory, as such, GIPF has the mandate to make sure that its members are knowledgeable about their benefits and how the Fund operates.
Household credit rose year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter during the second quarter of 2021, driven by a rise in asset-backed credit categories. This is according to the Bank of Namibia’s (BoN’s) quarterly bulletin for the second quarter
Highlighting some of the intra-African trade initiatives poised to improve regional and local growth, Iipumbu noted that Namibia and Zambia recently conducted bilateral discussions on the establishment of a one-stop border. This seeks to improve trade facilitation by ensuring the efficient and timely movement of people, goods and services at the common borders.
Coping with the complexity of today’s business environment is not about predicting the future or reducing risk. It’s about building the capability of people and the organisation; to adapt continuously and learn speedily; to maximise the chances of seizing fleeting opportunities.
Our cities and towns are cracking under the weight of land and housing shortages, and government’s failure to orchestrate a crystal path towards housing delivery has exacerbated this perennial dilemma. Those who are lucky enough to be allocated land are left stranded, bemused and faced with only one option: building a shack to be their home for time immemorial.
“Since our dependency on agriculture is constantly under threat by climate change and frequent droughts whose devastating effects are low productivity and loss of livestock, we have to explore adaptive mechanisms to diversify our economic activities, like the Blue Economy Policy,”
The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) said it is preparing to file for the rescission of a recent court order which compelled the party to reinstate two of its Mariental local authority councillors, who were recalled in February this year.
Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarian Diederik Vries has accused the governing party of using Swapo members of parliament who are descendants of the Ovaherero/Nama to champion the acceptance of the genocide joint declaration.