Making A Better World - Milton Louw

Namibia does not yet have a legal framework to protect personal details such as full names, date of birth and personal contact details. In fact, many businesses and government departments are not even trained in what is considered personal information. Take for example the website of the Law Society of Namibia (LSN). On its “Find a Firm or Practitioner” page (https://lawsocietynamibia.org/find-a-firm-or-practitioner/), it shows public information in a browser window, namely Name, Surname, Designation and Industry. If, however you investigate the coding of the page, it will also give you the Full Names, Date of Birth, and Personal Cellular Number of all its members.   The ability to save information on a computer and share this electronically necessitates legislation to be promulgated that protects the abuse of this information. These laws are especially necessary in our Information and Communication enabled society where information is stored on electronic retrieval systems....

  The Namibian Ministry of Information and Communication Technology is busy inviting comments from the public on the draft Data Protection Bill till the end of November 2022. Some of your rights as a consumer whose data is being collected and processed will allow for you to have information corrected or removed as well as punishments for non compliant entities. In October 2022, it was found that the Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund had placed files on their website to indicate the successful students who have received assistance. One of the files, placed in November 2019, was a 106 page document that included the following information: Last Name First Name Unique ID Namibian ID Email Cellphone Number Students Number All in all, 10,972 students details with all necessary information to steal their identity was placed inadvertently on the Internet. Over the past week, all the students on the list have been contacted (and added to this newsletter) to inform the...

All  Pension Funds in Namibia must in the month of January each year publish statements of benefits that have remain unclaimed for a period of five years or more in terms of section 93(1) of the Administration of Estates Act, 1965 (Act No. 66 of 1965) in the Government Gazette. NAMFISA has noted in 2019 that not all funds have been publishing these lists as required and is busy enforcing this.  Several funds are using the Consumer Registration Database of over 1 million records and have had some success in tracing these members or their beneficiaries. A database has also been created to capture all the data from thepublishezd Gazettes since the early 1970’s. It is expected that by February 2023, this database will be available to the public. You can search to see if you or your family are beneficiaries of unclaimed monies: GIPF: https://www.gipf.com.na/member-benefits/unclaimed-benefits/ Sanlam:  https://milton-louw.blogspot.com/2022/11/unclaimed-monies-newslet...

Sanlam is looking for the following people for unclaimed monies. Please contact Milton Louw on 081 6881368. Family Name Given Name Birthdate /OXURUB Gerson Dawid K 641128 Afrikaner Hileria Hiltikard 621009 AFRIKANER Jakobus 600101 AMADHILA Jonas 640723 AMPWEYA Elaikim Ampweya 600303 AMWAALWA Frans Shikalepo 680610 Andima Marthin 630803 ARESES Aurolia 530221 ARIBEB Ananias 550101 Awaras Maria 541118 BAISAKO Maria 590817 BARTHOLOMEUS Sakaria 630406 Basson Amanda 490623 Basson Lukas 610821 BEUKES Gert 501024 BOCK Maria Wilhelmina 440522 BOOIS Emma 660220 BOOIS Andries 390217 BOOISEN Hendrik 550602 Booys Saul 540404 BRANDT Marthaline 570313 Brandt Hendrik Ludwig 580921 Campbell Magrieta 440503 CHRISTY Callista Fellicita 420403 CLAASEN Calvin Willem 660703 CLOETE Piet Petrus V 580226 DAVID Salomo 550808 DE KLERK Catherine 641105 DE WALDT Rose-Marie 650821 Dirk Salomon 390217 DLAMINI Joseph George 510706 Drotsky Johanna 640311 Du Preez Yvonne Emmerentia 640820 Ekandjo Bertha 490707 Elia Math...

Sanlam has unclaimed monies. Please contact Milton LOUW on 081 688 1368 for further information. Family Name Given Name Date of Birth AFRICA Iza E 900622 AIYAMBO Liina Nakwenye 590824 AL-JAF Ako Ali 510530 AUALA Jeany Elise 730915 BOSHOFF Sarel 680619 BURGER Martinus 830526 DANIELS Ainsley Acton 660829 ENGELBRECHT Johannes 680917 FOURIE Carel Christian 511207 GAWASEB Rudolf R 711222 GROBLER Hermanus 790428 HANSTEIN Edward Romeo 750121 HASHIYANA Thomas Shaangeni 630401 HENGHONO Matias 660602 HERMAN Monica 920901 IZAAKS Karl Manfred 710110 JOSEPH Sonja 650928 KANDJUMBWA Matheus 510624 KATANGOLO Adreas 600622 KAVETUNA Ferdinand Frederich 520424 KIESSLING Maria Magdalena 441229 KRUGER Barend Johannes Willers 710221 LAMPRECHT Martha 790209 LIEBENBERG Hendrina 711026 MAPATE Theresia Kahimbi 600622 NAMUNDJEB Gino 980403 NDAHANGOUDJA Homateni Sackeus 541104 PLATT Rainy Sereny 681130 ROOINASIE Aletta Liticia 810825 SCHREUDER Albertus Johannes 570613 SHATIKA Martin 990827 THIRION Federico 470911...

Sanlam has unclaimed monies. Please contact Milton LOUW on 081 688 1368 for further information. Last Name ,  First Name ,  DoB AFRIKANER, Jeremia, 550625 AMUNGHETE, Mathews, 650312 AMUTENYA, David, 591223 ANDERSON, Manfred Rupert, 650704 ANGOLO, Benjamin, 510720 ANGULA, Lisias, 880202 APPOLUS, Jomo, 600625 AUSIKU, Sirkka, 640409 BEUKES, Anthea Suzette, 740303 BEUKES, Erich Alusius, 580918 BEZUIDENHOUDT, Christo Johannes, 661212 BIERBACH, Michelle, 960327 BOCK, Lorraine Letiitia, 640130 BOCK, Audrey Nadia, 820521 BOOIS, Josephine, 641111 Botha, Pieter Johannes, 610618 Brandt, Lily, 570818 BREDENHANN, Phillippus Albertus, 530923 DA COSTA, Carlos Alberto Magalhaes, 590517 DAMENS, Phillip Carl, 601106 Daniels, John Frederick, 541117 De Bruin, Ockert, Petrus, J, 710122 DE WET, Christiaan, 661107 De Wet, Hazel Joan, 650922 DETERING, Christian, 620802 DU PLESSIS, Cicil Marthinus Dias, 700618 Du Preez, Richard, 700509 Du Tiot, Edward Johannes, 681114 EKANDJO, Fransina Gundjileni, 581...