Celebrating 34 years at NHE

Michelline Nawatises Anette Dreyer started her journey by studying languages and education at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg from 1980 to 1984 and then became an inventory clerk and debtor’s clerk.Dreyer also had her fair share of being a receptionist/cashier and helping out at the bar occasionally at a hotel. She later joined the Windhoek municipality and worked in their internal audit department, mostly counting money from parking meters.Dreyer finally parked her car at the National Housing Enterprise on 1 October 1985. She first worked as an admin clerk who had to open the incoming mail and distribute it to the relevant people, and then moved on to being a receptionist.Journey at NHEAfter the receptionist job, Dreyer was promoted to procurement clerk. “There was no procurement department at that stage; I did all the orders by hand, received and distributed goods,” she says.She was then promoted to a revenue accounts clerk when NHE started taking over the first houses from the Windhoek municipality. “I also assisted IT, basically punching in the receipts for house payments and the new houses being disbursed on the loan book. We only had computers for the loans, or rather a word processor,” she adds.After that, she was promoted to accounts clerk (bookkeeper) in financial accounting and was responsible for the general ledger, which entails all entries (invoices, purchase orders, payments, purchase journal, fixed assets register, etc) which had to be manually written into a general ledger.The hardworking Dreyer assisted with invoice and payment processing. All cheques were written out weekly. After that, she was promoted to assistant accountant finance (general ledger), which she still is doing until today. She is responsible for creditors (all manual and purchase order invoices), value-added tax returns and general ledger recons (excluding anything to do with loans).“I love all aspects of my job, as you can see. I’ve worked in so many different aspects of accounting, auxiliary and procurement that I never had a chance of getting bored,” she says. Dreyer adds that the assistant accountant job she’s currently doing has various challenges. Some days the work feels like too much. “Everyone thinks I’m not ambitious enough, but above everything else, I’d rather have job satisfaction than more money in a job which I’m unhappy in,” she says.Dreyer's bucket list consists of seeing more of Namibia. “I have never been to the Fish River Canyon, Skeleton Coast or Lüderitz, and I plan to do that when I’m retired, which is a little over three years away,” she says.

Celebrating 34 years at NHE

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