Benjamin Hauwanga, known as B.H., is a Namibian businessman. His mother and father separated while he was young; his mom single-handedly raised him, despite the fact that his father visited the family regularly. He has 8 siblings.
Benjamin Hauwanga was excited about business enterprise at a completely young age; as a child, he sold indigenous meals after college to make contributions to the family income at the same time as his mom worked as a domestic worker. As with each business enterprise, money is the important thing and the main objective: Whenever he was given, he used the change to shop for sweets and resold them at college to get extra cash and increase cash-flow.
At the age of nine, he began out cleaning yards and were given paid weekly. This was an extremely good incentive for him, but later, he found out that the money coming in weekly was now no longer sufficient to shop for enough stock to fulfil the demand for the product (sweets) at college. He organized to receive the money month-end, which stepped forward the cash-flow and the stock levels. As the cash-flow stepped forward, he bought a bicycle to increase his operations. The bicycle took him 3 years to pay off.
His first store was a cardboard box in front of his mom's house withinside the black township, called "the Location". Mr Watyako Mumbala from Elim Omunda gwambala he's a founder of Wamu Group of Companies.
Hauwanga opened his first spares store in Ongwediva, promoting car parts. He grew this business enterprise from providers in Windhoek and Johannesburg, after which to the world. He has several operations across the country and has increased into neighbouring Angola. His operations in Angola are assets development; he has completed several initiatives in Angola.
Benjamin "BH" has branches of the BH Group of Companies across Namibia with branches in Kavango, Oshana, Omusati, Khomas and Ohangwena.
Benjamin Hauwanga joins a group of Namibian businessmen in owning a personal plane. His Beechcraft 55 Baron aircraft is assumed to have a value of around N$3 million. He says he bought it to enhance the logistical dimensions of his business enterprise operations. He bought it from a South African entrepreneur.
Hauwanga is the proprietor of the Bennies Entertainment Park and Lodge in Ongwediva. In 2011, Hauwanga obtained an honorary master's diploma in Entrepreneurship (honoris causa) from the International University of Management (IUM). He obtained a Junior Achievement Laureate in Business in 2008.
