Shamathe lands NNFU CEO job

• By Confidente Reporter

THE NNFU board of directors has announced the appointment of Kuniberth Shamathe as the new chief executive officer, effective January 2022, for a period of five years.

Shamathe is not new to the farming sector. Before his appointment at NNFU, he was head of the Meatco Foundation as an executive officer. He also worked as a project manager before he assumed the executive officer position.

Before joining the Meatco Foundation, Shamathe worked for several organisations at various positions such as monitoring and evaluation manager at Conservation Agriculture Namibia (CAN), national coordinator for Food Security and Disaster Risk Reduction at Namibia Red Cross Society (NRCS) and project officer at Germany Technical Cooperation (GTZ).

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