His parents separated while he was a young boy; his mother single-handedly raised him, although his father visited the family regularly.
He was fascinated with business at a very young age; as a child he sold indigenous food after school to contribute to the household income while his mother worked as a domestic worker.
This was a great incentive for him but later he realized that the money coming in weekly was not enough to buy enough stock to satisfy the demand for the product (sweets) at school.
The dispute arose from payments that BH Motor Spares alleges to have made to Pupkewitz for goods that they had neither ordered nor received.
Nakanyala was caught red-handed by the police while stealing a briefcase with money from Nujoma's residence and he later claimed that Hauwanga had sent him.
[citation needed] Through thorough investigations it was concluded that Nakanyala made all the stories up in an attempt to extort Hauwanga.
[3] In 2011, Hauwanga received a master's degree in entrepreneurship (honoris causa) from the International University of Management (IUM).