Making A Better World - Milton Louw

Black Economic Empowerment is about enlarging participation in the economy of the country. It's a tool to create wealth and opportunity to people who were previously excluded and achieved through partnership between white and black business people. Namibia has gone through various political changes over the past two centuries. One thing however is always constant. Once the political change occurs, there is a realisation that political independence means very little without economic ownership change. When the English ruled over Southern Africa they had the economic might. The Afrikaner took over and had to create state institutions such as the “Eerste Nasionale Ontwikkelings Korporasie” (ENOK or First National Development Corporation) to allow Afrikaner businessmen to get a share of the economic pie. The also created other institutions that should be supported by their people to become as powerful as the English ones, for example banks and insurance companies (Sanlam, Santam, etc....

Windhoek, Namibia  26th May 2010  Mihe Gaomab II is the Secretary and CEO of the Namibia Competition Commission. He is the Founding President of the Namibia Economic Society and remains an honorary member. This Article was adapted from a NES speech presented at a Seminar on BEE in South Africa organized by DELTACON, a BEE Auditing and Verification Company on the 4th November 20009.  Madam Moderator and Facilitator Distinguished Panelists Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Morning and allow me from the onset to thank NES for making it possible for me to present to you a contemporary yet crucial topic which is the Black Economic Empowerment in Namibia. This presentation of this topic is pioneering in the sense that I have been requested to present the relevance of BEE from a Competition Policy and Law perspective. Competition Policy and Law in Namibia As you are aware, at independence, Namibia realized that it faces developmental challenges b...

THE RELEVANCE OF BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT (BEE) TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPETITION POLICY AND LAW IN NAMIBIA - IS IT AN IMPERATIVE? MIHE GAOMAB II Windhoek, Namibia 26th May 2010 Mihe Gaomab II is the Secretary and CEO of the Namibia Competition Commission. He is the Founding President of the Namibia Economic Society and remains an honorary member. This Article was adapted from a NES speech presented at a Seminar on BEE in South Africa organized by DELTACON, a BEE Auditing and Verification Company on the 4th November 20009. Madam Moderator and Facilitator Distinguished Panelists Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Morning and allow me from the onset to thank NES for making it possible for me to present to you a contemporary yet crucial topic which is the Black Economic Empowerment in Namibia. This presentation of this topic is pioneering in the sense that I have been requested to present the relevance of BEE from a Competition Policy and Law perspective. Com...

Charlotte writes to Consumer Protection group: Are our Educational Institutions simply ripping us off?? Is the Price of Education a Realistic reflection of what we get for money? Are universities (and private institutes) in Namibia in it for the education or the money? Private Institutions of Learning Our constitution states: (4) All persons shall have the right, at their own expense, to establish and to maintain private schools, or colleges or other institutions of tertiary education: provided that: (a) such schools, colleges or institutions of tertiary education are registered with a Government department in accordance with any law authorising and regulating such registration; (b) the standards maintained by such schools, colleges or institutions of tertiary education are not inferior to the standards maintained in comparable schools, colleges or institutions of tertiary education funded by the State; Tertiary education schools are mushrooming all over the country. They provide e...

Dear Milton Thank you kindly for your response. Congratulations on your new found success, and what seems to be a positive future. You still however need to settle the past. You are once again misrepresenting the facts for your own benefit. I’ll leave it at that and not go into the specifics. Should anyone at any time require us to provide proof of anything you did we shall be happy to do so. I have no clout with legal shield and believe them quite capable of making decisions about who they emply on their own. Their decision might have been influenced by other factors such as the 2 court judgements against you for, shall we say questionable business practices. Our organisation and the IPPR still want these resolved but even after numerous attempts from us and the IPPR to discuss this with you, you have always managed to avoid us and the messenger of the court finding you. I am very surprised to hear from you and very happy. Please be so kind as to provide me with your physica...