Mattheus Shivute

Venture Builder || Policy Analysis || Governance ||Social Entrepreneur || Inspired by the everyday heroes amongst us.

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

Gentlemen, just imagine if each year we pooled a portion of our earnings whether it's from our businesses, salaries, allowances, or S&T towards building just two schools. It might seem like a small effort individually, but collectively it could make a massive difference.

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

Maar een ding van buite
What happens buite
Bly buite

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

There’s no amount of talk that will transform the cities current apartheid spatial landscape. The very people that are supposed to do that have no appetite for it. They will hit you with a 1920 regulation that it’s impossible.

[The Namibian @TheNamibian]

AUGUST, THE YEAR ... On 3 August, on what would have been his birthday, we pause to honour the enduring memory and legacy of Namibia’s third president, Hage Geingob. We recall his infectious energy, his characteristic warmth and his signature catchphrases – from the rallying call of “Harambee!” to his spirited shouts of “Omake!” that brought crowds to their feet. President Geingob once said: "August is a year, very important year. I was born in that year, many other people who are very important are born in that year." Hage Geingob would have been 85 years old on 3 August.

[Prof. Job Shipululo AMUPANDA @Shipululo]

People of Namibia 🇳🇦
LEARN that Husab is Africa’s LARGEST open-pit uranium mine and the SECOND LARGEST in the world— valued at over N$80 billion. When the Chinese bought this license, the deal was negotiated and signed in Australia and Hong Kong for nearly N$20 billion. Namibia got ZERO. Today, Namibia"owns" 10% through Epangelo Mining. The Chinese own 90%. Husab shipped its first uranium in 2016. Ten years later— in 2026 — Namibia has NOT SEEN A SINGLE DOLLAR from that 10% stake. The only "benefit" was the CEO of Epangelo pocketing sitting allowances for attending meetings - paid into his Personal Bank Account. Yes, For 10 ten years, our PUPPET GOVERNMENT collected ZERO for the people. They now HANDED OVER 70% of our coastal WATER to the same Chinese. They PROMISED the Chinese that Nothing will change during their recent trip where they ate 🍝 🍜. Now they want to rush laws through Parliament — not to fix this, but to give MORE POWER to the President (Oil Bill), the Prime Minister (PEGA Bill), and Governors (Regional Council Bill). These NEW POWERS will be used to SELL MORE and MORE. The Chinese are NOT the Problem. They are SMART. We should learn from them. The Problem is our PUPPET GOVERNMENT. We will not be SILENT while people in their 70s and 60s are SELLING our Country. We will CONTINUE TO FIGHT ‼️

[Observer Namibia @ObserverNamibia]

Thirty-six years after independence, Namibia continues to carry an unenviable distinction. Despite its political stability, vast natural resources and upper-middle-income status, it remains one of the most unequal societies on Earth.
https://t.co/LMF0QZALrn

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

Discussing cultural relativism with a cultural relativist is like playing tennis with some guy who says your race is just a social construct.

[Loide Ngwedha Uushona @gwaShuuya_4th]

A conspiracy theory I struggle to buy into is the whole thing about all commercial SOEs being sabotaged. I’m on the fence about that one. Some people are great managers, but they just do not have business acumen. Also some business models are terrible.

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

Affordable housing for the ordinary citizen is not profitable for your governing class and the owners of the land.

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

Affordable housing and the ordinary Namibian seem to be in a long-distance relationship they keep hearing about each other but never actually meet.

Every year there's another housing plan, another announcement, another promise yet somehow owning a home keeps moving further away

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

Afford your politicians some grace for they don’t know what they are doing.

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

Either it was recommended conditions for a loan agreement or a comrade is going to profit off of the introduction of Electronic Ids. There’s no way that is an urgency. On a positive note there’s nothing you can’t enforce on a timid population.

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

The urgency surrounding the introduction of the electronic identification system raises legitimate questions that deserve clear answers.

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

The funniest thing about some professionals is how they treat national issues like they're optional electives. 😂

In a fragile economy, staying silent doesn't make you independent it just delays your turn to be affected.

[The Namib Pulse @NamibPulse]

The Government of Namibia has agreed to acquire the Peugeot Opel Assembly Namibia (POAN) vehicle assembly plant in Walvis Bay from multinational automaker Stellantis for a N$1. 🚙

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

So the whole clean up initiative was because the President was visiting. Why should everything be performative. Clean the hospital because it’s the right thing to.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 China is now allowing engineering students to invent a new product instead of writing a 100-page dissertation to earn a PhD. 👏

[Namibian Sun @namibiansun]

“Our interest is to keep [the two companies] open…”

On The Agenda this Sunday, mines and energy minister Modestus Amutse explains some of his recent decisions, including reversing the Namibian Competition Commission (NaCC) ruling blocking a proposed merger between Whale Rock Cement (maker of Cheetah Cement) and Schwenk Namibia (parent of Ohorongo Cement).

Watch him at 20:00 on NTV (Dstv channel 285, GOtv channel 25) or at 19:00 on the Network Media Hub.

#TheAgenda
#NTV

[Rodney Cloete @rodneycloete]

The Namibia Statistics Agency’s Financial Inclusion Survey reveals that 51.3% of the working population borrows money to buy food. Not homes. Not businesses. Not cars. Food. Of these, 295,000 earn less than N$2,000/month. Total household debt to microlenders: N$7.2 billion. To banks: N$124 billion.

Economist Dirk Haarmann: “When people are borrowing simply to put food on the table, this signals structural failure in the economy and not occasional hardship.”

Economist Claudia Haarmann: “An industry has grown around people’s inability to feed themselves. Poverty here is not only suffered, it is also profited from.”
#Namibia

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

The most active institution in Namibia right now is the Department of Calling on Others.
Every headline is, "X calls on Y", "Y urges Z."
Meanwhile, the person who can actually pull the right strings is somewhere reading the news, probably wondering who they'll call on tomorrow.

[Mattheus Shivute @dcmattheus]

Bad parenting cannot be fixed by teachers.