My wonderful mother, Charlotte Schimming, my role model, who taught her daughters to always recognize their own work never to feel inferior to anybod… - Nora Schimming-Chase

My focus will be on development - promoting investment and increasing trade between Namibia and Germany. Tourism, Comrade President, is another area which promises increased revenue for our country, and it is here that Your Excellency’s Embassy in Germany can play a vital role in bringing more tourists to Namibia

So I celebrated my 21st birthday on the 1st of December, for the first time. I was the 5th of eight children, four boys and four girls.

She made it always look as if my father was the boss, but even if it came to petty cash, my mother used to hold the purse