Namibia: Popya With Lovisa Haipumbu

4 December 2013

"Corruption is obtaining services or goods via a back door manner via bribes or favors and alarming how high corruption is in Namibia. The youth are growing up with a mentality of it is who you know and not what you know feeding corruptions and it practices more and more," says Lovisa Haipumbu, who is busy cutting herself a niche in the cut-throat business of catering.

The beautiful, hardworking and driven business woman has a bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management and has not even made use of it yet. Born in Lubango in Angola before Namibia's independence where her parents where seeking refuge at the time, shortly after her birth her parents moved to Namibia and settled in Rundu. Lovisa Haipumbu's father was a police inspector at the time and was posted in Rundu and it is where she completed her first three grades of primary school before losing her father in a tragic car accident in 1995."Growing up I was very quiet, shy and kept to myself and at Oshakati Primary School where I played hockey and I was very good at it."

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