Dr Vincent Ntema Sazita awarded a scholarship by Konrad Adenaur Foundation through Namibia Agricultural Union to study towards a Diploma in Project Management and Project Administr...view moreDr Vincent Ntema Sazita awarded a scholarship by Konrad Adenaur Foundation through Namibia Agricultural Union to study towards a Diploma in Project Management and Project Administration for Senior Officials of Non-Governmental Overseas Organizations at Akademie Klausenhof in Germany and completed this in 1991. After completion, he worked as Regional Coordinator in Namibia Agriculture Union until May 1994. From 1 June 1994 he worked as teacher at Caprivi Senior Secondary School until the end of that year. In 1995, he was awarded a bursary by the Namibian Government to study a National Diploma in Health Sciences in the Faculty of Science at Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa. He further completed a Bachelor of Technology Degree in Environmental Health Sciences in 1999 and a Bachelor of Technology Degree in Public Management at the same University in 2000. After the completion of a National Diploma in Environmental Health Sciences in the Faculty of Science at Peninsula University of Technology in 1997, he was appointed Environmental Health Practitioner at Okakarara Health District in Otjozondjupa Region from 2 March 1998-21 May 1999. He was transferred to Okahandja Health District Hospital where he served from May 1999 to the end of December 2001 in the same position.
Dr Sazita completed his master’s degree in administration in the Faculty of Economics and Management Science (Department of Political and Administrative Studies) at the University of Namibia in 2002 and studied his doctor of philosophy (PhD) in public administration in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration at North-West University in South Africa and completed on 17 October 2008. On 2 January 2002, he was appointed manager of community services and public health at Okahandja Municipality, a position he served in until his appointment as chief executive officer at Katima Mulilo Town Council in the Zambezi Region on 5 March 2007 until 14 October 2011. He then proceeded to Windhoek and was appointed part-time lecturer at Namibia University of Science and Technology in the Department of Public Management, where he was lecturer in political and administrative studies. He was appointed at the International University of Management on 1 January 2013 as senior lecturer and later appointed as head of department in the Faculty of Strategic Management and Business Administration. He is also appointed chairperson of the Higher Degrees Committee at the same university. Dr Sazita completed his postgraduate certificate in tertiary education management, research, and policy in 2014 with the University of Melbourne in Australia and is currently enrolled for a master’s degree in tertiary education management at the same University of Melbourne (Australia). Dr Sazita is an author who has over the past three decades written many books, ranging from novels, journals, religious booklets, fairy tales, poetry, drama, orthographies, dictionaries, and many more, which are used in Namibian government schools and the universities around the globe. He also contributes to writing on conflicts, political, finances, economics, governance, and administrative publications that have won him credibility both nationally and internationally. His art of writing began while he was still in form IV (grade 11), where he produced two published books while he was still at a classroom level.view less