NBC throws its weight behind WorldSkills Africa Swakopmund 2022

The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) announced that it had sponsored two million Namibian Dollars toward the staging of the WorldSkills Africa Swakopmund 2022 Skills Competition, scheduled to take place at Swakopmund, from Monday, 28 March to Saturday, 2 April 2022.

NBC Director General, Stanley Similo said skills create opportunities and connect societies. “The young people competing at this event are the leading experts of tomorrow, which makes it all the more important that they get the best coverage possible” he said.

Similo added that the overarching purpose of the agreement is to establish framework cooperation the two entities, in areas of mutual interest including TVET careers advocacy, apprenticeships, training, marketing and public relations.

The Namibia Training Authority’s (NTA) Acting Chief Executive Officer, Muvatera Ndjoze-Siririka, said that on behalf of the organising project team, he was delighted to announce NBC, as a platinum sponsor of this event.

“The NBC’s value-in-kind sponsorship covers a broad spectrum of specialised media production, advertising and broadcasting support, including daily live television broadcasts of the event on television and on social media” Ndjoze-Siririkka said.

More than 100 competitors from 11 African countries are to compete in sixteen different technical and vocational trade areas at the event, including an international conference and a careers exhibition.

WorldSkills Africa Swakopmund 2022 takes place under the auspices of WorldSkills International and the African Union.

Namibia becomes only the second country on the continent to host WorldSkills Africa, following the inaugural event staged in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2018.