Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Amupanda was born in northern Namibia in Omaalala in 1987. He was raised by his grandmother Theopolina Adolf whom he used to help sell merchandise as a child. [6]From 2005 Amupanda studied at the University of Namibia (UNAM) where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science, and from 2008 served as the president of the Students' Council where he gained popularity during his tenure.
Namibia is a higher-middle-income country with an annual GDP per capita of N$79,431 in 2022, but has extreme inequalities in income distribution and standard of living. [ 10] It has the second-highest Gini coefficient out of all nations, with a coefficient of 59.1 as of 2015. [ 11] Only South Africa has a higher Gini coefficient. [ 12]
Map of Namibia. Windhoek, Capital of Namibia. Walvis Bay. Swakopmund. Cities and towns in Namibia are distinguished by the status the Government of Namibia has vested in them: Places in Namibia that are governed by a municipality are cities, places with a town council are towns. [ 1]
As of 2017 there were a total of 97 state-owned enterprises, also called public enterprises, in Namibia . 18 of the public enterprises are profit-driven and fall under the Ministry of Public Enterprises established in March 2015. Leon Jooste heads this ministry. [ 1] The other state-owned commercial entities are mainly active in education ...
Namibia ( / nəˈmɪbiə / ⓘ, / næˈ -/ ), [ 15][ 16] officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the east and south. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 ...
A list of universities in Namibia . There are three institutions in Namibia considered universities: [ 1] Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST, formerly the Polytechnic of Namibia, PoN) - Windhoek. University of Namibia (UNAM) - Windhoek. Windhoek College of Education, Khomasdal, Windhoek. Caprivi College of Education, Katima Mulilo.
White Namibians (German: Weiße Namibier or Europäische Namibier) are people of European descent settled in Namibia.The majority of White Namibians are Dutch-descended Afrikaners (locally born or of White South African descent), with a minority being native-born German Namibians (descended from Germans who colonised Namibia in the late-nineteenth century).
The Namibian Ministry of Labour ( MOL) is a department of the Namibian government. It was established at Namibian independence in 1990. The first Namibian Minister of Labour and Manpower Development was Hendrik Witbooi. [1] In 1995 the ministry was renamed Ministry of Labour and Human Resources, the first minister with this portfolio was Moses ...