Covid-19

8 06, 2020

NAVIGATING THESE TRYING TIMES

2023-07-27T09:50:00+00:00 June 8th, 2020|ECONOMIC PULSE, NEWS|

The world has seen many crises before. While each crisis is different, Ray Dalio (founder of Bridgewater Associates) reminds us that history has a tendency to teach us patterns that we can use as templates to assist us in successfully navigating through the storm. Covid-19 has caught the world by surprise, and although there [...]

27 04, 2020

FIRSTRAND NAMIBIA ESTABLISHES HOPE – A HEALTH OPTIMISATION PANDEMIC EMERGENCY FUND

2020-04-27T12:01:47+00:00 April 27th, 2020|NEWS|

Sarel van Zyl CEO:  FirstRand Namibia MEDIA RELEASE 8 April 2020 Today FirstRand Namibia announced the objectives of its HOPE intervention and relief effort, which aims to assist Government and its partners in mitigating the impact of COVID19 rapidly and at scale.  HOPE’s immediate objective is to accelerate the scaling of Namibia’s [...]

20 04, 2020

NOT GOING BACK TO NORMAL: BUSINESS CONTINUITY AFTER COVID19

2020-04-20T12:23:43+00:00 April 20th, 2020|NEWS|

Horst Simon Business Risk Officer, Capricorn Group We always want things to go back to normal quickly, but what most of us have probably not realised yet is that some things will never be the same again. To stop the coronavirus, we radically changed almost everything [...]