One of the challenges that Namibia is facing, is the challenge of lessening gender inequality and ensuring that the previously disadvantaged gets into the mainstream of the economy.
We have to be alert, all of us, permanently, to stand ready to respond to events that are very difficult to predict and in their nature are unique. Was the financial sector, and banks in particular, too optimistic about the possibility of this kind of crisis? It is unfortunately clear that the financial sector had very mediocre risk-management in the years preceding this crisis.