2 500 graduate at IUM winter convocation

The International University of Management (IUM) is holding their 2025 Convocation in Windhoek, which started yesterday, and concludes today.

Under the theme ‘Empowered to Inspire Impactful Change and Transformation’, the university began awarding qualifications to its graduates and will continue today.

While delivering the welcoming remarks during the second session of the ceremony, IUM’s vice chancellor professor Osmund Mwandemele said teachers are the most powerful agents in the world, and play an important role in shaping the futures of nations and individuals.

“You teachers are very important, even though very often you look down on yourselves. All of us here, we are who we are because of the hard work of teachers like you,” said Mwandemele.

Over 2 500 students graduated, bringing the number of total graduates since 1994 to 36 500. Two graduates were accorded their doctorate degrees, one in business administration and the other in integrated natural resources management.

IUM founder David Namwandi shared that the university’s 31 years’ journey has not been easy.

“As long as we strive to make a difference, challenges and obstacles shall inevitably be there along the way but we vow not to disengage,” he said.

Mirjam Kambala, the 2025 valedictorian, was also named the best honour’s student and echoed Namwandi’s sentiment. “Over the past four years, my colleagues and I invested our time and minds. We left our homes and families to pursue a future at a university dedicated to improving people’s futures, IUM,” she added.

James Klazen who completed his master’s degree in nursing science said he wishes to continue his studies in the future. “I’ve been working as a registered nurse and as a lecture, and in the future I wish to pursue my PhD,” he noted.

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