South West Africa People's Organization

• Theo-Ben Gurirab
  Theo-Ben Gurirab
  Theo-Ben Gurirab is a Namibian politician who has been the Speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia since 2005; previously he was Prime Minister of Namibia from August 27, 2002 to March 19, 2005.-Political career:...
  
   Speaker of the National Assembly
• Doreen Sioka
  Doreen Sioka
  Doreen N. Sioka is a Namibian politician. A member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 1994, Sioka is a member of the South West Africa People's Organization . In 2005, Sioka was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the 4th National Assembly.-References:...
  
   Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly
• Nahas Angula
  Nahas Angula
  Nahas Gideon Angula is the current Prime Minister of Namibia. He entered into office on March 21, 2005, when his appointment was announced by new president Hifikepunye Pohamba during the latter's inauguration. Angula received a master's degree in education from Columbia University.Angula was...
  
   Prime Minister
  Prime Minister of Namibia
  -Prime Ministers of Namibia :-See also:*Namibia**Politics of Namibia**List of colonial heads of Namibia **List of Presidents of Namibia...
  
  
• Libertine Amathila
  Libertine Amathila
  Libertine Appolus Amathila is a Namibian physician and politician. She has been the Deputy Prime Minister of Namibia since March 2005.Amathila was born in Fransfontein, Kunene Region...
  
  
• Ngarikutuke Tjiriange
  Ngarikutuke Tjiriange
  Ngarikutuke Ernest Tjiriange is a Namibian politician, a member of the National Assembly and former Secretary General of the ruling SWAPO Party. He is the Minister of Veterans' Affairs in the Namibian cabinet....
  
  
• John Pandeni
  John Pandeni
  John Alphons Pandeni was a Namibian politician and trade unionist. A member of SWAPO, Pandeni was Minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development at the time of his death....
  
  
• Jerry Ekandjo
  Jerry Ekandjo
  Jerry Ekandjo is a Namibian politician, currently serving as Minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development....
  
  
• Richard Kamwi
  Richard Kamwi
  Richard Nchabi Kamwi is a Namibian medical physician and politician. A member of the National Assembly with the South West Africa People's Organization since 1999, Kamwi has been the Minister of Health and Social Services since March 2005.-Pre-independence:After graduating from the Technikon...
  
  
• Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila
• Joel Kaapanda
  Joel Kaapanda
  Joel N. Kaapanda is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization , Kaapanda has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since November 2002 and the Minister of Information and Communication Technology since March 2005...
  
  
• Marco Hausiku
  Marco Hausiku
  Marco Mukoso Hausiku is a Namibian politician. Previously serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honorable Mr. Hausiku now serves as the Deputy Prime Minister of Namibia,.Hausiku was born in Kapako, Okavango Region...
  
  
• Albert Kawana
  Albert Kawana
  Albert Kawana is a Namibian politician. A member of the SWAPO, Kawana has been a member of the National Assembly and Cabinet since 2000, reaching the post of Minister for Presidential Affairs in March 2005...
  
  
• Utoni Nujoma
  Utoni Nujoma
  Utoni Daniel Nujoma is a Namibian politician. He is the son of Sam Nujoma, who was President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005, and was Deputy Minister of Justice until being appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2010...
  
  
• Loide Kasingo
  Loide Kasingo
  Loide Lucky Shoopala Kasingo is a Namibian politician and prominent trade unionist. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization , Kasingo has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 1996 and deputy minister from 1996 until 2005.-Education:Kasingo matriculated at...
  
  
• Immanuel Ngatjizeko
  Immanuel Ngatjizeko
  Immanuel Ngatjizeko is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization, Ngatjizeko has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 2000 and member of the Cabinet since May 2003...
  
  
• Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana
  Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana
  Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana is a Namibian politician and the Secretary-General of the South-West Africa People's Organization ....
  
  
• Petrus Iilonga
  Petrus Iilonga
  Petrus Iilonga is a Namibian politician, as well as a former trade union leader and former political prisoner. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization , Iilonga has been the Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare since his appointment in 2000.Iilonga was born in...
  
  
• Teopolina Mushelenga
  Teopolina Mushelenga
  Teopolina Mushelenga is a Namibian politician. A member SWAPO, Mushelenga was first elected to the National Assembly of Namibia following the 1999 elections. She was subsequently re-elected in 2004...
  
  
• Alpheus !Naruseb
  Alpheus !Naruseb
  Alpheus /Gou-!na !Naruseb is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization , !Naruseb has been in the Cabinet of Namibia since 1997 and the National Assembly since 1994....
  
  
• Nangolo Mbumba
  Nangolo Mbumba
  Nangolo Mbumba is a Namibian politician and educator. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization , Mbumba has been the Minister of Education under Hifikepunye Pohamba since his appointment in March 2005.-Education:Mbumba graduated from Southern Connecticut State University in the...
  
  
• Erkki Nghimtina
  Erkki Nghimtina
  Erkki Nghimtina is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization , Nghimtina has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 1995 and the Minister of Mines and Energy since 20 March 2005.-Personal:Erkki Nghimtina was born in Eembidi in Ovamboland in...
  
  
• Bernhardt Esau
  Bernhardt Esau
  Bernhardt Esau is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization, Esau has been a member of the National Assembly since being chosen by President Sam Nujoma in 1995. He has also been the Deputy Ministry of Trade and Industry since 1999.-Career:Esau was born in...
  
  
• Lempy Lucas
  Lempy Lucas
  Lempy Lucas is a Namibian politician. A member of the National Assembly since 2000, Lucas is a member of the South West Africa People's Organization . She has also been the Deputy Foreign Minister of Namibia since replacing Kaire Mbuende in 2004...
  
  
• Victor Simunja
  Victor Simunja
  Victor Simunja is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization , Simunja has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia and deputy Defense Minister since 2000. Simunja rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Namibian Defence Force prior to entering...
  
  
• Hansina Christiaan
  Hansina Christiaan
  Hansina Christiaan is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Christiaan was a member of the 4th National Assembly of Namibia from 2005-2010.-References:...
  
  
• Pohamba Shifeta
  Pohamba Shifeta
  Pohamba Shifeta is a Namibian politician. A member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 2005, Shifeta is a member of SWAPO. At the time of his election to the National Assembly, Shifeta was chosen as the Deputy Secretary of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture...
  
  
• Angelika Muharukwa
• John Mutorwa
  John Mutorwa
  John Mutorwa is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization, Mutorwa has been a member of the National Assembly and of the cabinets of Sam Nujoma and Hifikepunye Pohamba since 1992...
  
  
• Petrina Haingura
  Petrina Haingura
  Petrina Namutenya Haingura is a Namibian politician. Haingura is a member of SWAPO, and she holds a seat in the National Assembly of Namibia since 2005. She grew up in a SWAPO-supporting household and has been a part of the movement since 1980...
  
  
• Paulus Kapia
  Paulus Kapia
  Paulus Kapia is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Kapia was first elected to the National Assembly of Namibia in 2005. Kapia was a member of SWAPO's military wing in exile, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia as a political commissar...
  
  
• Willem Konjore
  Willem Konjore
  Willem Konjore is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Konjore was appointed as Minister of Environment and Tourism in 2005. He was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia beginning with the Constituent Assembly in 1989 and ending following the election of the 5th National Assembly in...
  
  
• Lucia Basson
  Lucia Basson
  Lucia Basson is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Basson was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia from being chosen for the SWAPO electoral list by then-President Sam Nujoma in 2005 until 2010, when she narrowly missed re-election. She is a SWAPO leader from the Hardap...
  
  
• Abraham Iyambo
  Abraham Iyambo
  Abraham Iyambo is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Iyambo has been a member of the National Assembly since 1995 and is the Minister of Education.-Education:...
  
  
• Ben Amathila
  Ben Amathila
  Ben Amathila is a semi-retired Namibian politician. Amathila served in the government of Namibia with SWAPO from independence in 1990 until his retirement from the National Assembly in April 2007...
  
  
• Isak Katali
  Isak Katali
  Henry Isak Amalovu Katali is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Katali worked as an educator, both as a teacher and in administration around Ondangwa from 1987-2000. From 1990 to 1995, Katali worked as the regional secretary for the Namibia National Teachers Union...
  
  
• Peya Mushelenga
  Peya Mushelenga
  Peya Mushelenga is a Namibian politician and poet. A member of SWAPO, Mushelenga has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since the 2004 elections and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, since 21 March 2010. He joined the movement for liberation of Namibia in 1984, at the age of 9...
  
  
• Leon Jooste
  Leon Jooste
  Leon Jooste is a Namibian politician and businessperson. A member of SWAPO, he was appointed to replace Gerhard Tötemeyer in the National Assembly of Namibia. In 2005, he was elected on the SWAPO Party list and appointed as the Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism in Hifikepunye Pohamba's...
  
  
• Gabriel Shihepo

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  • Tjekero Tweya
    Tjekero Tweya
    Tjekero Tweya is a Namibian politician and trade unionist. A member of SWAPO, Tweya has been the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry in the cabinet since appointment in 2010. Prior to entering the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Tweya was the Deputy Minister of Finance from 2005-2010...
    
    
  • Hage Geingob
    Hage Geingob
    Hage Geingob is a Namibian politician who was the first Prime Minister of Namibia following its independence, serving from 1990 to 2002...
    
    
  • Moses Amweelo
    Moses Amweelo
    Moses Amweelo is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Amweelo has been a member of the National Assembly since 2000 and the Minister of Works, Transport and Communication from 2000-2005.-References:...
    
    
  • Marlene Mungunda
    Marlene Mungunda
    Marlene Mungunda is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization, Mungunda has been the Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare since March 2005.- References :...
    
    
  • Royal /Ui/o/oo
  • Peter Tsheehama
    Peter Tsheehama
    Angura Peter Tshirumbu Tsheehama was a commander in the People's Liberation Army of Namibia, diplomat, Chief of Intelligence, and Namibian minister.-Biography:...
    
    
  • Kazenambo Kazenambo
    Kazenambo Kazenambo
    Kazenambo Kazenambo is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Kazenambo was first elected to the 4th National Assembly of Namibia in 2005. Following the election, President Pohamba appointed Kazenambo as the Deputy Minister of Regional, Local Government and Housing and Rural Development behind...
    
    
  • Hans Booys
    Hans Booys
    Hans Gabriel Booys is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Booys was selected to the National Assembly replace Nathaniel Maxuilili after he died in a vehicle accident. Shortly after, he was elected in his own right in the 1999 election. He was once again re-elected in the 2004 election...
    
    
  • Rafael Dinyando
  • Rosalia Nghidinwa
    Rosalia Nghidinwa
    Rosalia Annette Nghidinwa is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization, Nghidinwa has been a member of the cabinet of Namibia as Deputy Minister of Labour from 2000-2005 and Minister of Immigration and Home Affairs since 2005. She has also been a member of the...
    
    
  • Evelyn !Nawases
  • Tommy Nambahu
  • Nickey Iyambo
    Nickey Iyambo
    Nickey Iyambo is a Namibian politician and physician. A member of SWAPO, Iyambo has been a member of the Cabinet of Namibia since independence in March 1990. He has been the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry since 2005....
    
    
  • Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
    Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
    Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Nandi-Ndaitwah is the Minister of Environment and Tourism since March 2010 and a long-time member of the National Assembly of Namibia....
    
    
  • Samuel Ankama
    Samuel Ankama
    Chief Samuel Ankama is a Namibian politician and educator. A member of SWAPO, Ankama has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 2004.-Career:...
    
    
  • Elia Kaiyamo
    Elia Kaiyamo
    Elia George Kaiyamo is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Kaiyamo was an internal organizer and teacher for SWAPO prior to independence. Kaiyamo is currently the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration.-Education:Kaiyamo earned a B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1989. He...
    
    
  • Jeremia Nambinga
    Jeremia Nambinga
    Jeremia Nambinga is a Namibian politician and businessperson. Since 2008, Nambinga has been a member of the Rally for Democracy and Progress . A long-serving member of Swapo party, Nambinga was Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and a member of the National Assembly of Namibia from 1995...
    
    
  • Dickson Namoloh
  • Rebecca Ndjoze-Ojo
    Rebecca Ndjoze-Ojo
    Rebecca Kapitire Ndjoze-Ojo is a Namibian politician and educator. A member of SWAPO, Ndjoze-Ojo has been a member of the National Assembly and Deputy Minister of Education since 2005.-Career:...
    
    
  • Paul Smit
    Paul Smit
    Paul Albertus Smit is a Namibian politician and farmer. A White farmer, Smit considers himself "apolitical" despite being the Deputy Minister of Agriculture since 2000 in an otherwise SWAPO-led government. He was the Minister of Agriculture for part of 2004-2005 following Helmut Angula's...
    
    
  • Ida Hoffmann
    Ida Hoffmann
    Ida Maria Magdalena Hoffmann is a Namibian politician. Selected as a non-voting member of the 4th National Assembly of Namibia, Hoffman was active in SWAPO in the 1980s. She founded the Children’s World Creche in Katutura in 1984 and has been involved in the Roman Catholic Church since 1962...
    
    
  • Alexia Manombe-Ncube
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Congress of Democrats

Congress of Democrats

The Congress of Democrats is a political party in Namibia, led by Ben Ulenga. It is an opposition party represented in the National Assembly.The party is an observer of the Socialist International.- 2004 elections :...

• Ben Ulenga
  Ben Ulenga
  Benjamin Ulenga is a Namibian politician. A member of the National Assembly of Namibia, he is the President of the Congress of Democrats , an opposition political party....
  
  
• Nora Schimming-Chase
  Nora Schimming-Chase
  Nora Schimming-Chase is a Namibian politician. A member of the Congress of Democrats, Schimming-Chase has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 2000. Prior to joining the NA with the opposition CoD, Schimming-Chase was a long time diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
  
  
• Tsudao Gurirab
  Tsudao Gurirab
  Tsudao Immanuel Gurirab is a Namibian politician. A member of Congress of Democrats , Gurirab was formerly a member of the ruling South West Africa People's Organization until Gurirab, Ben Ulenga, Ignatius Shixwameni and others left SWAPO to form CoD in 1999...
  
  
• Elma Dienda
  Elma Dienda
  Elma Jane Dienda is a Namibian politician and teacher. A member of the Congress of Democrats, Dienda was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia from taking CoD's final spot in 2004 until CoD did not receive enough votes for her re-election in 2009...
  
  
• Kalla Gertze
  Kalla Gertze
  Reinhard Gertze was a Namibian university lecturer and parliamentarian as a member of the Congress of Democrats party. He was in the National Assembly from 2005 until his death in 2008. He had previously been a lecturer at the University of Namibia.-Personal:Gertze was born in 1960 in...
  
  

Democratic Turnhalle Alliance

• Katuutire Kaura
  Katuutire Kaura
  Katuutire Kaura is a Namibian politician. He has been President of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance since 1998 and was Leader of the Official Opposition from 2000 to 2005.Kaura was born in Ombujondjupa, Otjozondjupa Region...
  
  
• Phillemon Moongo
• Johan De Waal
  Johan de Waal
  Johan Claasen de Waal is a Namibian politician. A member of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance , de Waal was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia from 1994-2010...
  
  
• McHenry Venaani
  McHenry Venaani
  McHenry Venaani is a Namibian politician. A member of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, Venaani was a member of the National Assembly 2002-2010. At the time of appointment in 2002, he was the youngest member of the National Assembly of Namibia...
  
  

United Democratic Front

United Democratic Front (Namibia)

The United Democratic Front is a political party in Namibia. Justus Garoëb is the party's leader.-1989:The UDF received 37,874 votes in the 1989 election, which elected members to the Constituent Assembly of Namibia. The Constituent Assembly elected the first President and wrote Namibia's...

• Justus //Garoeb
  Justus Garoëb
  Justus Garoëb is a Namibian traditional leader and politician. He became Chief of Damara in 1982 and founded the United Democratic Front in 1989. He was a staunch opponent of South African rule and led the oppositional Namibia National Front in the late 1970s.Garoëb was born in Omaruru, Erongo...
  
  
• Gustaphine Tjombe
  Gustaphine Tjombe
  Gustaphine Tjombe is a Namibian politician. A member of the United Democratic Front, Tjombe was a member of the National Assembly from 2003-2010. She was sworn into the National Assembly to replace Eric Biwa, who had resigned. She was elected in 2004 as part of the UDF's list in the country's...
  
  
• Michael Goreseb
  Michael Goreseb
  Michael Bantu Goreseb is a Namibian politician. A member of the United Democratic Front, Goreseb has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since the 2004 parliamentary election as well as member of the UDF's Central Committee during the same time...
  
  

National Unity Democratic Organisation

National Unity Democratic Organisation

The National Unity Democratic Organisation is a political party in Namibia that is based among the Herero. NUDO was part of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance from the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference of the 1970s until it withdrew in September 2003, accusing the DTA of failing to work for...

• Kuaima Riruako
  Kuaima Riruako
  Kuaima Riruako is a politician in Namibia. Riruako is also the paramount chief of the Herero and a National Unity Democratic Organisation representative in Parliament, also called "Okahandja Herero" by some...
  
  
• Arnold Tjihuiko
  Arnold Tjihuiko
  Arnold Tjihuiko is a Namibian politician. A member of the National Unity Democratic Organisation, Tjihuko has been a member of the National Assembly since 2005. He played an important role in the South West Africa National Union from 1974-1995...
  
  
• Asser Mbai
  Asser Mbai
  Asser Mbai is a Namibian politician. A member of National Unity Democratic Organization , Mbai has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 2005. Mbai is the acting Vice President as well as NUDO Secretary General. He replaced Mburumba Kerina in the NA following Kerina's following...
  
  
• Mburumba Kerina