The chief executive officer of the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI), Tarah Shaanika has now joined the circle of board members serving on a government company. Shaanika, who is supposed to represent the interests of the private sector in the NCCI, might have a conflict of interest serving on the board of TransNamib. In addition, Shaanika is already board member of Team Namibia, the company that promotes and allocates the quality label "Naturally Namibian" to businesses that qualify. After TransNamib board chairman Dr Klaus Dierks died in March this year, the board was without a chairman and the term of most members had expired. The other new board members of TransNamib are Mbetjiha Mbakutua, Riaan Potgieter, Martin Fabianus and Foibe Jacobs. The appointments of board members onto parastatals by the government ahs in the past 15 years always followed the "politically correct" line, meaning that only SWAPO members chair such boards. This narrowed the circle of experts and capable persons significantly leading to the recycling of the same people over and over again, also heavily influenced by State House under the Nujoma regime.