Kaupomhote has, of late, become a darling of road contracts, especially through the state owned Roads Authority which gave her a N$100 million road rehabilitation contract earlier this year for the 25km road from Elundu and Eenhana.
The president's daughter is now shortlisted on two road tenders - one worth N$400 million and another for N$80 million.
The N$100 million contract that she and her partners received to rehabilitate the road close to her village was discreetly reported in the government owned newspaper New Era a few weeks ago but the report did not mention the name of the daughter of the president as being the recipient.
Kaupumhote's business partner, Taschiona !Gawaxab, is the daughter of Johannes !Gawaxab, the Old Mutual Africa managing director.
In that contract, Kata is in partnership with China State Construction Engineering Corporation, a powerful Chinese state-owned enterprise with expertise in housing, international building contracting, property development and investment, and infrastructure construction.
RA chief executive Conrad Lutombi said the contract was awarded in June this year and completion is expected at the end of June 2015.
According to him, all Namibian contractors have an equal and fair opportunity to bid for RA tenders including Kata Investment.
“It should be noted that since inception, the Roads Authority has not disqualified a bid on the basis of contractors' personal background or association,” he said.
The latest N$100 million was awarded a few months after Kata Investment won a controversial N$16,4 million housing contract from the National Housing Enterprise last year, 12 months after the company was formed.
That means that her company has so far received N$116,4 million worth of state contracts in a space of 12 months which will increase by an extra N$480 million if she gets the two contracts Kata is shortlisted for.
The 26 year-old Kaupomhote is also in the running for the RA construction of a gravel road from Epato, Otamanzi and Onaushe in the Omusati and Oshana regions.
The RA invited experienced civil engineering contractors to team up with small and medium enterprises for the construction of the 36,2 km gravel road.
A Tender Bulletin publication shows that the tender closed on 13 August 2014.
Kata bid the highest in that tender with N$81 million while the rest of the companies ranged between N$59 million and N$78 million.
Kambwa Trading which is owned by prominent businessman David Sheehama is also competing with Kata Investment in the tender which is yet to be issued.
Kata Investment entered a joint venture with another Chinese company China Xing Xing Corporation and are now shortlisted for a road tender between Namalubi, Isize and Luhonono for which Kata bid N$400 million.
“As it is the norm, a media briefing to announce the successful contractor and other relevant information will be held once this process is finalised,” said Lutombi.
The contract which closed on 27 August 2014 is for the upgrade of a 24km seal and construction of a new 33 km gravel road.
According to the requirements published in the tender bulletin, the main contractor should team up with one experienced small and medium enterprise.
The Tender Bulletin warned that Kata Investment did not have enough civil engineering experience which would give room for the Chinese company to take most of the money from the contract because Kaupumhote's company will be left with little to do due to their limited experience in the sector.
Kata Investments is named after the first two letters of the names Kaupumhote and Taschiona who described the company as a driver for women empowerment.
Taschiona was quoted by the weekly newspaper Confidente earlier this year saying that “the biggest challenge in the construction industry is the gender bias”.
Taschiona said she and her partner analysed the operational landscape and “realised the sustainability of our beautiful country requires the public and private sector to deliberately practise conscious capitalism”.
Efforts to get comment from Taschiona and Kaupumhote were not successful. Kaupumhote is said to be in Tanzania.
Kaupomhote studied information technology at the Polytechnic of Namibia.
She described herself as “a young Namibian female professional specialising in databases yet with enough zest to look beyond my spectrum. I keep my ears open for new and great projects I can be a part of”.