The Pebble in the Pond, Creating a Ripple for Change Michelle McLean-Bailey started her modelling career at the age of thirteen and was crowned Miss Namibia in 1991. At the age of 19 she was crowned Miss Universe in 1992 and became the first woman from Namibia to win the crown to date. In 1995, Michelle was instrumental in bringing …
Dreams Don’t Work Unless You Do In 2011, he won the Afroatainment Museke Online Africa Music Award (MOAMA) for best alternative song for the single: ‘Black Girl, White Boy’ which he recorded with Namibian female duo Gal Level. Tell us a little bit about Elvis Se Seun and the type of music you do and why you chose that particular …
Life Changing Experiences Cornelius Shikolaye, is a GOtv customer and was born and raised in Northern Namibia. He is an entrepreneur and owns Evatello Trading market, with several branches in Katutura. Has MultiChoice’s service evolved over the years? It is very popular and they always improve their service over the years. What is your favorite TV show? I like news. …
Turning Personal Brands into Empires. Today Dillish is an entrepreneur and brand ambassador for Delush Wines, Automobile Association of Namibia in the category of Women in Road Safety and South African Airways. Why did you decide to enter Big Brother? I was sitting in class in my third year and I asked the lecturer for a scope. We were writing …
Enriching Lives Give us insight into MultiChoice’s history. The past twenty-five years? MultiChoice Namibia, is the first joint venture with MultiChoice outside South Africa. We’ve got two shareholders being Kalahari Holdings as a Namibian entity which is the majority shareholder and MultiChoice Holdings as the other partner. MultiChoice Namibia is responsible for subscriber management – that’s really the core of …
An Adventure of a Lifetime After graduating with a Bachelor of Accounting, Kobus Bezuidenhout couldn’t see himself going into auditing and joined what was then called M-Net and his life adventure began. M-Net Namibia received broadcast rights on the 16th of December 1991 and opened its doors for for business on the 19th of December 1991. The company was officially …
Home Is Where The Heart Is What do you do at MultiChoice? My responsibility is looking after customer services all over Namibia. We have thirteen agents in different towns and it is my responsibility to manage those relationships. We have over a hundred and twenty installers whom we also assist on a daily basis. I have a very competent team …
Setting a Benchmark Mbeuta was born in Botswana and joined the liberation struggle in Zamibia and Angola in the nineteen eighties. Mbeuta came to Namibia in 1989 at the age of twenty-five for the first time to continue giving his contribution to the new born republic. From your perspective, how did MultiChoice contribute towards the development of the Namibia’s broadcasting …
Bringing Communities Together Is what you are doing now what you’ve always wanted to do? Yes. I am very happy to be a MultiChoice Namibia agent. We work really well together. It’s been a fruitful relationship. There has been a lot of opportunities for us, where we won a lot of prizes. It is a pleasure to wake up in …
Innovative Education What’s your favorite movie or TV series of all time and why did it speak to you so much? My favorite series would be Suits. I like it because of the way people intimidate each other there and their intelligence. You can see how life really is. What was the best phase in your life? My best phase …