NDB Expects To Cut Loses By 50%
Monday, October 05, 2015
Despite tight liquidity, NDB remains self-sustainable and continues borrowing from the capital market which is still under a constrained interest rates environment.
Updating the media on their current business environment recently the CEO of NDB Lorato Morapedi said that an interest constrained environment and high cost of funding immensely affects the Bank’s profitability. The CEO further reflected that despite all these challenges, the Bank intends to break through the ceiling and shrink the Bank’s 2013/14 comprehensive loss by at least 50 percent during the year 2014/15 to ensure that the NDB tracks back to profitability.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...