{"id":15654,"date":"2025-11-19T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/namibias-central-bank-governor-to-leave-post-after-five-years\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:49","slug":"namibias-central-bank-governor-to-leave-post-after-five-years","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/namibias-central-bank-governor-to-leave-post-after-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia&#8217;s Central Bank Governor to leave post after five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia&#8217;s central bank said this Wednesday that its Governor, Johannes !Gawaxab, would leave his position at the end of 2025, a year before his term was due to end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>!Gawaxab was first appointed in June 2020 for 18 months after his predecessor was named Finance Minister. He was later appointed for a five-year term to the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The central bank did not say why !Gawaxab was leaving his post or what he would do next. It did not name a successor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>!Gawaxab steered the Southern African country&#8217;s central bank through the COVID-19 pandemic and a period of global economic volatility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the central bank highlighted his role in ensuring Namibia redeemed a $750 million Eurobond in October this year and in growing the Welwitschia Fund, the country&#8217;s sovereign wealth fund.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It also stressed his success keeping inflation well-contained, saying it averaged 3.6% in the first eight months of 2025, down from 4.6% over the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15655,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-15654","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Namibia's central bank said this Wednesday that its Governor, Johannes !Gawaxab, would leave his position at the end of 2025","published_date":"2025-11-19 15:59:50","news_description":"Namibia's central bank said this Wednesday that its Governor, Johannes !Gawaxab, would leave his position at the end of 2025","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19798,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15654\/revisions\/19798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}