Botswana and Namibia have a long standing that has since grown over the year. Today, it brings us great joy to announce that we have signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Namibia. BUAN and UNAM staff have, for a long time, worked together in developing their different faculties, for example, Faculty of Health Science & Veterinary Medicine and the Faculty of Agriculture, Engineering and Natural Resources. BUAN also receives and trains Veterinary Meat Inspectors from the Government of Namibia at our second campus in Lobatse, the Meat Industry Training Institute annually.

 

BUAN Vice Chancellor, Professor Ketlhatlogile Mosepele and UNAM Vice Chancellor Professor Kenneth Matengu both started by acknowledging that the MoU is an affirmation of existing relationship between the two institutions. Prof. Mosepele said that the loftier goal of this MoU is to facilitate the implementation of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, which advocates for continental integration at all levels. One of the benefits of continental integration is a strengthened economy and social development. He said that BUAN embraces the ideals of Pan Africanism as outlined in the Agenda 2063 policy document and advocates for regional integration as espoused in the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan 2020-2030.

 

It was also very impressive to see that there were other African universities that were going into some form of partnership with UNAM, such as Makerere University- Uganda, Chinoyi University of Technology-Zimbabwe and University of South Africa.

 

Prof. Mosepele concluded by saying that BUAN is committed to ensuring that this MoU is implemented comprehensively in the furtherance of these regional and continental policy instruments.