Namibia: Graduate Starts Own Car Wash

24 April 2013

Windhoek — Although thousands of Namibian university students graduate each year with diplomas and university degrees the job market struggles to create a commensurate number of jobs to absorb them, leaving many graduates without work.

The nature of the Namibian economy does not seem to help matters because the mining sector mainly extracts and exports raw minerals with very little value addition, resulting in the mining sector creating more jobs in the countries where these minerals are exported.

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