Last year I got a telephone call from a lawyer in Namibia. He'd read my book and wanted me to come through and help them with a fronting problem they had. We managed to solve this problem without me going there but since then I have harboured a great desire to do some work up in Namibia. I spent a year on the border in Oshakati in the mid eighties and I have been to Windhoek a few times since then. I love the people, the country and the dangerous hospitality that I experienced with one Barney Harmse. I wrote a few articles for the Namibian Economist on the subject hoping to stir up a little interest (if anyone is reading this from Namibia – please invite me on a speaking tour, I promise I'll be there in a shot).
Namibia's BEE programme is known as The Transformation of Economic and Social Empowerment Framework (TESEF) and is supposed to have been finalised sometime last year. A draft policy has been published but needs to be pushed through the legislative process. Sounds strangely familiar.
The policy favours historically deprived Namibians (HDNs) and can include white women to a certain extent.
If anyone has a copy of the draft TESEF document please send it through to me – I'll comment on it in this blog.
