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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, media ...
Postal codes in Namibia. After 28 years without a postal code system in Namibia, the national postal service provider NamPost introduced new postal codes in December 2018. [1] They consist of five digits, where the first two indicate the region, the last two the post office and the third digit is always a 0. Address format examples.
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]
The Standard Bank of Canada was a Canadian bank established in 1872 as the St. Lawrence Bank [1] by a group of Toronto businessmen led by John Charles Fitch. In 1876 it was renamed the Standard Bank of Canada following a reorganization, and under its new management it grew. By 1907 it had nearly 50 branches and added another 27 when Standard ...
1988 Oshakati bomb blast. The 1988 Oshakati bomb blast was a bombing in Oshakati, Ovamboland, South West Africa (now Oshana Region, Namibia) which killed 27 people and left 70 others injured on 19 February 1988. The target of the bombing was the Barclay 's Bank in the town. The perpetrators were never identified or convicted.
FNB Namibia was founded as Deutsche Afrika Bank (DAB) in 1907, and in 1915 the National Bank of South Africa took over the assets of DAB which was in 1926 integrated with Barclays Bank. Barclays Bank changed the name of the South African operation to Barclays National Bank Limited in 1971, and later to First National Bank of Southern Africa.
Stanchart Zambia is a subsidiary of the Standard Chartered Bank, an International financial services conglomerate, headquartered in London in the United Kingdom, with operations in more than sixty countries and a network of over 1,700 branches, employing in excess of 86,000 people. As of December 2017, the shares of stock of Standard Chartered ...
Geography of Namibia. / 22.000°S 17.000°E / -22.000; 17.000. Topographic map of Namibia. At 824,292 km 2 (318,261 sq mi), Namibia is the world's thirty-fourth largest country. After Mongolia, Namibia is the second least densely populated country in the world (2.7 inhabitants per square kilometre (7.0/sq mi)).