Namwandi bids farewell to staff
By Staff Reporter

THE International University Of Management (IUM) Vice Chancellor’ Dr David Namwandi on Wednesday this week bade farewell to the institution in acceptance to his call by President Hifikepunye Pohamba who appointed him as Deputy Minister Of Education last Sunday on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Namibian Independence.

The New Vice Chancellor, Virginia Namwandi whom the University’s Governing Council appointed as “Acting” Vice Chancellor is the “first student of the Institute Of Higher Education,” the forerunner to the IUM and a founding member of the university. Until recently she has been the registrar.

Dr Namwandi was elected by the SWAPO Party Electoral College as one of its 72 proposed members to the National Assembly in the General Election of last year in which SWAPO Party walloped to an overwhelming two-thirds majority.

The more salient changes in the university are that the former Deputy Chairperson, Dr. Helen Nkandi-Shiimi becomes the Chairperson of the Governing Council while Bishop Kleophas Dumeni becomes the Chancellor, while the Deputy Vice Chancellor becomes Professor E Taylor.