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Namibian businessperson and first lady of Namibia

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Monica Geingos (née Kalondo; born 15 November 1976) is a Namibian entrepreneur, lawyer and First Lady of Namibia since 2015. She has been a board member and director within many of the country's large companies. She had also chaired the Presidential Economic Advisory Council.

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It's not only about representation at the top. It's also about hiring female talent so female talent is around when decisions are being made on leadership and key positions within an organization.

Having sex is nice but it is only nice when it is consensual. Some people have made sex as their means of survival, they do it for money and when things go wrong they end up regretting it. Sex is supposed to be made to produce babies and not to be for transactional purposes,

I abhor corruption and I have not benefited from the Namdia contract or any tender involving the government.”

Families are supposed to play their role in the future of the youth by providing love and ensuring protection, having a sense of belonging, and offering financial support for youth development programs.

Neither my son, nor brother have a business relationship with Cohen involving a government tender or contract.

Power does not concede without a demand, and neither does patriarchy,”

We used to have 23 percent female representation in parliament but, with the stroke of a pen it went up to 48 percent. So, we managed to double our female representation with that decision,”

Shooting first and aim later is my philosophy,

But government help is still needed in providing better access to capital for female entrepreneurs and prioritizing government procurement from female-owned or represented businesses,

I've decided that enough is enough... I will not be silenced anymore,"

Avoid falling prey to older men and engaging in transactional sex,”

Next time you see a woman going through crude forms of abuse, remember this: it's not what they think about that individual woman, it's what they think about women and their place in society. Challenge it. By standing up for one woman, you stand up for all women,

My son and brother are adults. As far as I am aware, the business relationship between my son and Doron was limited to the co-ownership of two small and medium enterprises, of which interest my son has been trying to dispose of for the last 12 months,

There should be parental involvement in youth matters, and without all these, families have not played their role in youth engagement and development as supposed to be,”

We will be using our own money to do all these, including fixing the current place which belongs to the Ministry of Works and Transport, to be used for the first phase, as from the 1 September while the Youth Concert building is to be finalized,”