Cabinet makes new board appointments

THE Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco) will have a new board at the beginning of next month.

Cabinet approved the appointment of six new members at its 19th ordinary meeting on July 29. Their term of office will start next month and last for a period of three years.The new board will consist of Albert Tjihero, to represent communal producers, Arne Gressmann (commercial producers), Wilhelm Mosehuus and Harold Erasmus as experts to Meatco, Victorine Kandjai (workers’ representative) and Sophia Kasheeta as a representative of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development.Namfisa Board Cabinet has endorsed the appointment of four people to the board of the Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (Namfisa).The previous board’s term of office expired at the end of June.Paul Hartmann has been reappointed as director while Cecilia Ndishishi, Ipumbu Titus and Roger Gertze are new appointees who will serve for the next three years.The decision was taken at its 19th ordinary meeting on July 29.Replacement member Cabinet also approved the appointment of Deon Obbes to the Minerals Ancillary Rights Commission.Obbes, a legal advisor in the Office of the Attorney General replaces Leezhel van Wyk who resigned for personal reasons.Cabinet also approved the appointment of Gert Coetzee to the Namibian Agronomic Board.Coetzee, who will represent processors of controlled agronomic crops, will serve for the next three years.He replaces Q van Rooyen who resigned from the board in May.Their term of office will start next month and last for a period of three years.The new board will consist of Albert Tjihero, to represent communal producers, Arne Gressmann (commercial producers), Wilhelm Mosehuus and Harold Erasmus as experts to Meatco, Victorine Kandjai (workers’ representative) and Sophia Kasheeta as a representative of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development.Namfisa Board Cabinet has endorsed the appointment of four people to the board of the Namibia Financial Institutions Supervisory Authority (Namfisa).The previous board’s term of office expired at the end of June.Paul Hartmann has been reappointed as director while Cecilia Ndishishi, Ipumbu Titus and Roger Gertze are new appointees who will serve for the next three years.The decision was taken at its 19th ordinary meeting on July 29.Replacement member Cabinet also approved the appointment of Deon Obbes to the Minerals Ancillary Rights Commission.Obbes, a legal advisor in the Office of the Attorney General replaces Leezhel van Wyk who resigned for personal reasons.Cabinet also approved the appointment of Gert Coetzee to the Namibian Agronomic Board.Coetzee, who will represent processors of controlled agronomic crops, will serve for the next three years.He replaces Q van Rooyen who resigned from the board in May.

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