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26/08/2026

But the work of building Namibia does not end with one generation.

We inherit the responsibility to keep building, transforming and creating a future worthy of those who came before us.

Happy Heroes’ Day. 🇳🇦

21/08/2026

Prepare, collaborate, and become bankable.

This is the challenge our Managing Director, Jason Kasuto, has placed upon Namibian entrepreneurs and suppliers during his welcome address at the Local Content & Suppliers Masterclass of the Namibia Oil and Gas Conference.

Namibia does not have to navigate this journey without precedent. Other emerging oil and gas markets have shown what intentional local supplier development can achieve. The opportunity now is to learn, adapt and prepare for our own context.

As Mr Kasuto reminded the room, the world is looking at Namibia. Our responsibility is to make sure Namibia is ready.

20/08/2026

As a participant and partner, our role at the Namibia Oil and Gas Conference extends across the entire event.

Our Managing Director, Jason Kasuto, has contributed in his capacity as Chairperson of the Economic Association of Namibia, and the Monasa team is hosting the VIP Networking Room and engaging with local and international stakeholders throughout the event.

We are here to bring the right people into the room, create space for honest conversations, connect local capability with opportunity, and think strategically about how Namibia positions itself for what comes next.

Monasa Advisory & Associates is here to engage, listen, connect and contribute to industry conversations.

18/08/2026

This morning, our Managing Director, Jason Kasuto, joined a media side discussion alongside H.E. Dr Philip Mshelbila, Secretary General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), and Cons Karamata, CEO of the Economic Association of Namibia (EAN), as conversations around the Namibia Oil & Gas Conference got underway.

The discussion created an opportunity to engage with members of the media on developments, opportunities and perspectives shaping the global gas and energy sector, while bringing the conversation closer to home through reflections on Namibia’s emerging oil and gas industry.

As Namibia continues to navigate the opportunities presented by this developing sector, conversations such as these are important in connecting global perspectives with our local economic context and encouraging informed dialogue around what the industry could mean for the country.

18/08/2026

Our Managing Director, Jason Kasuto, will be contributing to the conversation at the Namibia Oil & Gas Conference as both Chairperson of the Economic Association of Namibia (EAN) and a voice on the opportunities emerging within Namibia’s growing oil and gas sector.

Beyond delivering the welcome address in his capacity as EAN Chairperson, Mr. Kasuto will lead a session for SMEs and entrepreneurs, unpacking available opportunities and exploring how Namibian businesses can position themselves to participate meaningfully in the sector.

You can also find him at our stall or the Monasa VIP room throughout the event. Stop by to connect, exchange ideas and continue the conversation on the opportunities shaping Namibia’s economic future.

17/08/2026

Monasa Advisory & Associates will be at the Namibia Oil and Gas Conference 2026

Namibia’s oil and gas story is moving from discovery and potential towards decisions, investment and delivery.

We believe the opportunity before Namibia is not simply to develop a resource, but to build an ecosystem that converts investment into enterprise, skills, jobs, local participation and sustainable economic value.

That is why we are proud to be participating in the Namibia Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition 2026, and to host a VIP Networking Room that will bring together senior industry stakeholders, investors, entrepreneurs and strategic partners.

We are creating space for the conversations that matter: connecting capital with opportunity, local capability with global expertise, and strategy with ex*****on.

Transforming Africa from within.

10/08/2026

"The problem with this country is not money."

President Nandi-Ndaitwah said that to our state-owned enterprises this month, and gave them 24 months to deliver.

So what is the problem? Namibia doesn't have a funding gap. It has a mobilisation gap.

The capital is already here: N$221 billion in the GIPF alone. The money has owners. What's scarce is the arranger who connects it to the projects, off the state balance sheet.

The skill to raise the money is not the skill to run the utility.

Namibia has that skill. It just isn't put to work at scale.

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27/07/2026

We were told Namibia's debt problem was the money we owe the world.

Look closer. The world is barely 12% of it.

Nearly nine in every ten dollars the government owes is now owed at home, to Namibian banks, our pension funds, our insurers. That shift is partly a success story: we retired a US$750 million Eurobond in full, and borrowing in our own currency spares us the exchange rate risk that sank other economies.

But it moves the real question somewhere few people are looking.

Interest is now 16.4% of everything the state collects, up from 14.7% two years ago. For every N$100 in revenue, about N$16 is spoken for before a single teacher, clinic or road is paid. And every dollar our banks and pension funds lend to the government is a dollar not lent to a Namibian business.

The state and the entrepreneur have quietly joined the same queue, reaching for the same pool of money.

Namibia can carry this debt. That was never in doubt. The sharper question, the one this week's Monitor puts on the table, is what the debt is buying us, and whether we measure that as closely as we measure the debt itself.

Eight cards. Five minutes. Swipe through it. →

If you could set one rule for government borrowing, that it may fund what builds, but not what merely runs, would you?

Follow The Monasa Monitor for a new read every 2nd Monday of Month: the numbers that move Namibia, made clear.

Sources: Ministry of Finance 2026/27 budget and fiscal strategy; Bank of Namibia; FNB Namibia.



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15/07/2026

For decades, a fifth to a third of Namibia’s budget has come through the Southern African Customs Union revenue pool, a shared regional arrangement that moves with the region’s trade. This year it shifted by billions, a timely moment to examine how that revenue works and how to build on it.
Every national budget contains one number the country would rather not dwell on. For Namibia, it is the line marked SACU. Each year a large share of what the government spends does not come from taxes we levied or income we earned. It arrives as a transfer from SACU; the common pool of customs and excise duties shared among its members. In 2024/25 that transfer was worth N$28 billion. In 2025/26 it fell to N$21.1 billion, roughly a quarter gone in a single budget. It has since clawed back some ground: a quarter of the state’s money swings by billions year to year, on forces beyond our control.
Read the full article by our Managing Partner Jason Kasuto, CDFA on our website: https://www.monasa.org/the-revenue-we-keep-calling-ours/
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For decades, a fifth to a third of Namibia’s budget has come through the Southern African Customs Union revenue pool, a shared regional arrangement that moves

13/07/2026

Namibia sells minerals to the world.
It makes its living selling to itself.

Here is the split almost no one names.

Mining, the thing we are known for, is about one Namibian dollar in seven of the economy. The services we do for each other, trade, finance, transport, government, are more than half of it. Put trade, finance, transport and property together, and they are twice the size of mining.

And yet mining is nearly half of what we export, and more than half our foreign exchange.

So, we live on services, and we earn hard currency on minerals. That one split quietly explains a great deal: why commodity prices rattle the national budget, why we ship raw material out and buy finished goods back, and why "adding value at home" keeps returning to every economic conversation we have.

The full picture, one chart across eight cards, is this week's Monasa Monitor. Five minutes. Swipe. →

If you could pull one lever to change how Namibia earns, value addition, diversification, or a stronger domestic revenue base, which would it be?

Follow The Monasa Monitor for a new read every Monday: the numbers that move Namibia, made clear.

Sources: Namibia Statistics Agency, National Accounts; Bank of Namibia.

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