- published: 30 Jan 2014
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The Bank of Namibia was established in 1993 to replace the never opened Namibia Reserve Bank. The Bank of Namibia is the only institution that is permitted to issue the Namibian dollar by authority that has been given to it under an Act of the Namibian Parliament. The head of the Bank of Namibia is the Governor of the Bank of Namibia. Tom Alweendo has been Governor since 1997.
The Bank is engaged in policies to promote financial inclusion and is a member of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion .
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (Afrikaans: Republiek van Namibië, German: Republik Namibia (help·info)), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations.
The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by Bushmen, Damara, and Namaqua, and since about the 14th century AD by immigrating Bantu who came with the Bantu expansion. It became a German Imperial protectorate in 1884 and remained a German colony until the end of World War I. In 1920, the League of Nations mandated the country to South Africa, which imposed its laws and, from 1948, its apartheid policy.
RADIO STATION | GENRE | LOCATION |
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Radio Eros | Contemporary | Namibia |
Channel 7 / Kanaal 7 | Christian Contemporary | Namibia |
Hitradio Namibia | Top 40 | Namibia |
West Coast FM 107.7 | Varied | Namibia |
Kosmos 94.1 FM | News Talk,Pop | Namibia |