25 January 2010
East Midlands Business Champions
The High Commissioner of Namibia -His Excellency George M. Liswaniso recently visited Leicester, on the invitation of Business Champion, Frederick Muyijimi.
The Lord Mayor Cllr. Roger Blackmore and Lady Mayoress Mrs. Hilary Blackmore warmly welcomed the High Commissioner to the City of Leicester at a civic reception attended by dignitaries from the Council, Schools and business.
Namibia is seeking the assistance of the region to improve their education sector, initially through establishing cluster twinning with schools in Leicestershire.
The High Commissioner and his entourage later paid a courtesy visit to Cromwell Tools Ltd, one of the world’s leading supplier of industrial and educational tools based in the region He was conducted around state of the art global distribution facilities in Wigston.
Photograph from left to right: Martin Cook -Operations Director of Cromwell Tools Ltd, Steve White -Char of SDSA, HE George Liswaniso-High Commissioner of Namibia, Kanaki Tjejamba -The Trade Secretary, Frederick Muyijimi- East Midlands Business Champion Ambassador and Director of African British Business Association-(AfBBA), Ben Amoah (AfBBA), Rickin Bilimoria Managing Director of creative-i and David Gollings -Divisional Business Manager.