By: Annakleta Haikera

University of Namibia’s (Unam) Rundu Campus student representative council vice president Vernet Mukoya says that more courses, lectures, leisure and sports infrastructures are needed in the Rundu campus.

Mukoya said this on Wednesday as the university launched their 30th-anniversary ceremony at the Rundu campus.

“Rundu Campus is one of the campuses amongst the 12 Unam campuses that is regarded to be the number one in terms of cleanness and proper maintenance of facilities.”

According to Mukoya, the university of Namibia houses more than 30,000 students each year in different courses, but this alone does not make it the best institution; hence, it has committed to offering the best training that enables the citizens to be productive tools to this nation.

Mukoya added that Unam is one of the leading institutions in Namibia, an institution which has given birth to the most successful citizens of this nation.

“As a birthday, we reflect back and study the books of our challenges and map out the goals of our future and as a student and a proud student of the university of Namibia, my wish is that we recognise the need for more blue collar careers, venture more into applied knowledge courses, self-employment mind-training acquaintance and many other factors like our African parents would tell us,” he said.

He also said that although the university has been faced with challenges, it has still given birth to teachers, doctors, engineers, pilots, economists, radiographers and nurses.

All stakeholders are engaged in the development of the university, specifically, students who receive 100 per cent representation through the student representative council.

“Unam still gives the best experience to the students through the office of the dean of students affairs. Through the Unam foundation, the university had committed to helping needy students and sometimes beyond that into the communities. It is at this institution that the son and daughter of the farmer be made to realise that they can be the ministers they want to be, that the son and daughter of the domestic worker are made an engineer, that the boy who was herding cattle be a doctor.”