Working together can grow //Kharas
The Namibian Chamber of Commerce and Industry believes the //Kharas region has a lot of economic potential.
KEETMANSHOOP – Business people and government officials in the //Kharas region must work together and package business opportunities the region can offer.
These opportunities must be sold to the world to attract investors and grow the region, said the president of the Namibian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI), Bisey Uirab.
Addressing a business meeting organised by NCCI at Keetmanshoop on Tuesday, Uirab said: “What is stopping you, the business people, and government to package business opportunities that you and the region can offer?”
“Call on us, the NCCI, and other national institutions if you need assistance, present the products, your opportunities, your cooperate advantages, your locations. If you do it properly, I have no doubt that you will be able to attract many investors that will want to come and partner with you and grow this region,” he added.
//Kharas is neighboured by the Northern Cape of South Africa and business people and government should look at ways on how they can start trading with the people of the province through the port of Lüderitz, as well as the Keetmanshoop and Lüderitz airports, he said.
“This part of the country has so much potential economically and if the government and business people work together with other players in the country and elsewhere, I am sure we can eliminate poverty in this region because we have diamonds and many agricultural opportunities,” said Uirab.
CHALLENGES
At the meeting, some business people indicated that access to finance and the allocation of land by local authority areas remain the biggest challenges faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
“The lack of funding kills our ideas. I might have a good business idea, but the access to finance issue will kill that idea as financial institutions' paperwork is complicated, such as security as well as other requirements that we find difficult to meet,” said Matthew Areseb.
Another businessman, Silvester Gawaseb, said the allocation of land is big a challenge.
“It takes many years to be allocated land. The bureaucracy with government officials is killing us really. If NCCI can help us with these two issues we will really appreciate it,” he said. - Nampa
These opportunities must be sold to the world to attract investors and grow the region, said the president of the Namibian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI), Bisey Uirab.
Addressing a business meeting organised by NCCI at Keetmanshoop on Tuesday, Uirab said: “What is stopping you, the business people, and government to package business opportunities that you and the region can offer?”
“Call on us, the NCCI, and other national institutions if you need assistance, present the products, your opportunities, your cooperate advantages, your locations. If you do it properly, I have no doubt that you will be able to attract many investors that will want to come and partner with you and grow this region,” he added.
//Kharas is neighboured by the Northern Cape of South Africa and business people and government should look at ways on how they can start trading with the people of the province through the port of Lüderitz, as well as the Keetmanshoop and Lüderitz airports, he said.
“This part of the country has so much potential economically and if the government and business people work together with other players in the country and elsewhere, I am sure we can eliminate poverty in this region because we have diamonds and many agricultural opportunities,” said Uirab.
CHALLENGES
At the meeting, some business people indicated that access to finance and the allocation of land by local authority areas remain the biggest challenges faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
“The lack of funding kills our ideas. I might have a good business idea, but the access to finance issue will kill that idea as financial institutions' paperwork is complicated, such as security as well as other requirements that we find difficult to meet,” said Matthew Areseb.
Another businessman, Silvester Gawaseb, said the allocation of land is big a challenge.
“It takes many years to be allocated land. The bureaucracy with government officials is killing us really. If NCCI can help us with these two issues we will really appreciate it,” he said. - Nampa
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