Tunohole Mungoba – Ongwediva
Barnabas Shilongo established Shilongo Gravestones and Funeral Services in 2017, but only officially registered his business in 2019.
“Shilongo Gravestones and Funeral Services specialises in tombstones, funeral services, flower arrangements and we also have printing, piano, videography and photography services,” says Shilongo, the 28-year-old entrepreneur born at Othika village in the Omusati Region.
His company has branches in Oshakati and at Okahao and he currently employs 18 people. He is in the process of opening a third branch at Outapi.
A qualified artisan, Shilongo completed his vocational training in boiler making at the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (Nimt) in Keetmanshoop in 2015.
Monique Adams
Ramsay McDonald completed high school at Kimberley Boys High in South Africa in 1984. After school he was fortunate to get funded in part by a bursary from Pim Goldby (the predecessor of Deloitte) and partly by his father to study for a Bachelor of Commerce and a postgraduate diploma in accounting at the University of Cape Town from 1985 to 1988.
In 1989 he passed the board examination to qualify as a chartered accountant and completed his training contract with Deloitte.
“I spent two years with the Kimberley Deloitte office in a manager capacity before going on a short-term secondment to Deloitte in the United Kingdom, the Winnersh office. I then joined the Deloitte Namibian office in 1993 until 1997 and transferred to the Deloitte Cape Town office where I eventually became partner in 1999,” he says.
Air Namibia protests ‘too little, too late’
2021-02-18
Political analysts have termed the nationwide protests by the Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL), the country’s largest trade union, the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) and the Trade Union Congress of Namibia (Tucna) against Air Namibia’s liquidation as “too little, too late”.
The NUNW, which was joined by the SPYL, marched to the Swapo headquarters and Office of the Prime Minister, while Tucna petitioned parliament.
Speaking to New Era yesterday, political commentator and director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Graham Hopwood said he was not sure as to why some sections of the ruling party are now acting surprised about a decision that has been staring them in the face for some time while President Hage Geingob indicated in his State of the Nation Address (Sona) in 2020 that Air Namibia would most likely be liquidated. “The astronomical transfers of taxpayer’s money - almos
Kenya Kambowe RUNDU
Days after celebrating once again topping the charts in the recently-announced grade 11 and 12 results, St Boniface yesterday found itself having to answer to claims of fraud during last year’s examinations.
The allegations pertain to the 2020 grade 11 national examinations where it is alleged that the school acted fraudulently as far as the history ordinary level examination is concerned.
St Boniface has enjoyed the status of being ranked as the best private school in the country for years, with its learners dominating the rankings year in, year out.
Namibian Sun is in possession of a letter issued by the Kavango East education directorate to the school’s principal Mary Phillis Yesudasan, requesting her to inform teachers and learners implicated to attend interviews as part of the investigation.
Mariselle Stofberg
With the change in the Namibian curriculum for schools, many learners are uncertain as to which universities will accept applications with a grade 11 certificate.
My Zone spoke to higher learning institutions in Namibia to gain some perspective on the future of grade 11 learners and tertiary education.
Gerry Wilson Munyama, the director of marketing, communication and stakeholder engagement at the International University of Management (IUM), says although IUM is a private university, it does not operate in a vacuum.
“It is guided by Namibian laws and policy directives in delivering its mission of equipping its students with the much-needed productive skills required to transform not only Namibia and the continent but the global village as well. That is our mission. Therefore, IUM shall toe the line and will not discriminate against any NSSC graduate application on the basis of grade 11 or grade 12. To us, they are cooked in the same pot,” Munyama said.