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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 ...
Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek, and it is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations. Agriculture, herding, tourism and ...
List of state-owned enterprises in Namibia; A. Air Namibia; B. Bank of Namibia; M. Ministry of Public Enterprises (Namibia) N. NamWater
The ministry was set up to manage 18 profit-driven state-owned enterprises in Namibia. [1] In 2021, the ministry began its transformation into a department, in Namibia the sub-ministerial entity, of the Ministry of Finance. For the state-owned companies, a holding company is to be created, a process estimated to take 5 years. [2]
During this period, Namibia existed under apartheid as a subjugated colonial state of South Africa. [9] Apartheid began in 1948 [ 11 ] under British control in the Union of South Africa . By the mid-1960s, about 45 to 50 percent of the Black labour force was contract migrant labour from the northern Namibia colonial reserves .
The act received the assent of State President F. W. de Klerk on 20 March 1990 and came into force on the following day, the date of Namibian independence. The act relinquishes South African authority over Namibia, and provides that, as far as South Africa is concerned, South African laws no longer have effect in Namibia. [1]
Namibia–South Africa relations refers to the current and historical relationship between Namibia and South Africa.South Africa (then part of the British Empire as the Union of South Africa) captured the area now known as Namibia from Germany during World War I and governed it, by the name 'South West Africa', until 1990, when the country gained independence under the name 'Namibia'.
Namibia–South Africa border (1 C, 4 P) H. High commissioners of South Africa to Namibia (2 P) J. ... South African Border War; South West Africa; T. Treaty on ...