Pupkewitz's N$10m gift fuels job creation philosophy

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The chairperson of the Pupkewitz Group Holdings, David Nuyoma, says the need to equip Namibia’s current and future business leaders birthed the establishment of the Harold Pupkewitz Business School.

Nuyoma made the remarks this week as the Pupkewitz Group celebrated 100 years of continued business operations, and credited its patriarch, the late Harold Pupkewitz, for laying the foundation of the Graduate School of Business, housed at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), with a N$10 million injection at its establishment in 2010.

“He explained at that launch about why he felt it necessary to contribute to supporting the university, but also the empowerment of the Namibian nation through good leadership. He had a philosophy that a good business leader would be able to find solutions to the unemployment [problem] that is ravaging our country,” Nuyoma said of the motivations given to him by the late Pupkewitz about the establishment of the graduate business school.

The empowerment of good business leaders was also seen as an employment multiplier by Pupkewitz, Nuyoma said.

“He had a formula. I could not trace it, but with each good leader you employ at least four people, and if you have within your team various leaders that come through, you can see what it can do,” he said.

Pupkewitz died on 27 April 2012, at the age of 96, following a heart attack.

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