Namibia, often described as “Africa’s Optimist”, offers foreign investors ongoing business opportunities related to mining, fishing, agriculture and tourism.

The one gap in the economy is in the manufacturing sector. With no union restrictions on the use of unskilled labour, labour is relatively cheap by world standards and conducive to higher profit margins.

• most of the country’s primary resources are exported to lucrative markets worldwide
• most of its consumer goods are imported
• the local market, albeit small, is undersupplied in terms of affordably priced locally manufactured goods