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
• 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...
  
   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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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 ....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Jerry Ekandjo
  Jerry Ekandjo
  Jerry Ekandjo is a Namibian politician, currently serving as Minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila
• 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...
  
  
• Charles Namoloh
• 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...
  
  
• Alpheus Muheua
  Alpheus Muheua
  Alpheus Muheua is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Muheua was elected to the National Assembly of Namibia in the 2009 general election. He was subsequently appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare in President Pohamba's second cabinet...
  
  
• Priscilla Beukes
  Priscilla Beukes
  Priscilla Beukes is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Beukes was elected to the National Assembly of Namibia in 2010. She was subsequently appointed to the cabinet as Deputy Minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Energy Development behind Jerry Ekandjo. Beukes was previously...
  
  
• Priscilla Beukes
  Priscilla Beukes
  Priscilla Beukes is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Beukes was elected to the National Assembly of Namibia in 2010. She was subsequently appointed to the cabinet as Deputy Minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Energy Development behind Jerry Ekandjo. Beukes was previously...
  
  
• Erastus Uutoni
  Erastus Uutoni
  Erastus A. Uutoni is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Uutoni was first elected as the Mayor of Ongwediva in 2003. In 2009, Uutoni was selected for the SWAPO list for the National Assembly of Namibia for the 2009 general election.-References:...
  
  
• Billy Mwaningange
  Billy Mwaningange
  William Werner Mwaningange is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Mwaningange was elected to the National Assembly of Namibia in the 2009 general election...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Lucia Witbooi
  Lucia Witbooi
  Lucia Witbooi is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Witbooi was elected to the Namibia's National Assembly in the 2009 general election. Prior to entering the National Assembly, Witbooi was a teacher in Gibeon, Hardap Region...
  
  
• Angelika Muharukua
  Angelika Muharukua
  Angelika Muharukua is a Namibian politician. An ethnic Himba from northwestern Namibia, Muharukua joined the South West Africa People's Organization in 1979. She was a surprise choice by President Sam Nujoma for the 2nd National Assembly of Namibia in 1995 and has remained in the National...
  
  
• Auguste Xoagus
  Auguste Xoagus
  Auguste Xoagus is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Xoagus was a regional councilor for his party in the northwestern Kunene Region prior to his election to the 5th National Assembly of Namibia in 2009.-References:...
  
  
• Chief 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:...
  
  
• Uahekua Herunga
  Uahekua Herunga
  Uahekua Herunga is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Herunga was a regional coordinator for his party in the northwestern Kunene Region prior to his election to the 5th National Assembly of Namibia in 2009 as a choice of President Hifikepunye Pohamba. He subsequently appointed Deputy...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Willem Isaack
• 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....
  
  
• Sylvia Makgone
• David Namwandi
  David Namwandi
  David Namwandi is a Namibian politician and academic, serving as Deputy Minister of Education.-Education:He received an Advanced Diploma in Business Administration in 1993 from the Association of Business Executives...
  
  
• Piet van der Walt
  Piet van der Walt
  Piet van der Walt is a Namibian businessperson and politician. A White Afrikaner Namibian, van der Walt began associating with SWAPO in a business capacity following independence in 1990. He was placed on the parliamentary list for SWAPO at number 42 prior to the 2009 National Assembly election and...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Elifas Dingara
• Festus Ueitele
  Festus Ueitele
  Festus Ueitele is a Namibian politician. He was placed 49th on the SWAPO electoral list prior to the 2009 general election and, as SWAPO won 54 seats, he was elected to the National Assembly of Namibia. Prior to and following the 2004 general election, Ueitele was SWAPO's regional coordinator for...
  
  
• Juliet Kavetuna
• 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:...
  
  
• Evelyne Nawases-Taeyele
• Alexia Manambo-Ncube
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  

Rally for Democracy and Progress

Rally for Democracy and Progress (Namibia)

The Rally for Democracy and Progress is an opposition political party in Namibia. It was launched on November 17 2007 under the leadership of Hidipo Hamutenya and Jesaya Nyamu, both former leading members of the ruling SWAPO party and cabinet ministers. Hamutenya had unsuccessfully sought the SWAPO...

• Hidipo Hamutenya
  Hidipo Hamutenya
  Hidipo L. Hamutenya is a Namibian politician. A long-time leading member of the South West Africa People's Organization , Hamutenya was a member of the Cabinet of Namibia from independence in 1990 to 2004...
  
  
• Steve Bezuidenhout
• Jesaya Nyamu
  Jesaya Nyamu
  Jesaya Nyamu is a Namibian politician. A member of the Rally for Democracy and Progress , Nyamu was a high level member of the South West Africa People's Organization from 1964, when he fled into exile, until 2002, when he was expelled from the party for "disobedience"...
  
  
• Agnes Limbo
  Agnes Limbo
  Agnes Mundia Limbo is a Namibian politician. A member of the Rally for Democracy and Progress , she was named the Deputy Secretary of the party at their founding conference in December 2008...
  
  
• Anton von Wietersheim
  Anton von Wietersheim
  Anton von Wietersheim is a Namibian politician. Wietersheim was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia from 1989 to 1990 and was elected to the National Assembly as a SWAPO candidate in 1990...
  
  
• Kandy Nehova
  Kandy Nehova
  Kandy Nehova is a Namibian politician. A member of the Rally for Democracy and Progress , Nehova is a member of the National Assembly of Namibia following the 2009 election...
  
  
• Peter Naholo
  Peter Naholo
  Peter Naholo is a Namibian politician and former trade unionist. Naholo was a combatant with the People's Liberation Army of Namibia , the military wing of the SWAPO liberation movement. In 2009, he was placed sixth on the National Assembly list for the newly formed Rally for Democracy and Progress...
  
  
• Heiko Lucks
  Heiko Lucks
  Heiko Lucks is a Namibian politician. A member of the Rally for Democracy and Progress, Lucks was elected to the National Assembly of Namibia in the 2009 general election....
  
  

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...
  
  
• Simson Tjongarero

Republic Party

Republican Party (Namibia)

The Republican Party was a political party in Namibia, based among the white minority. Henk Mudge is its President and its sole representative in the National Assembly. Prior to the 2004 parliamentary election, the Republican Party was part of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance . It was revived as...

• Henk Mudge
  Henk Mudge
  Henk Mudge is a Namibian former politician. He is the former President of the Republican Party and formerly the party's only member in the National Assembly. He was replaced in the National Assembly by Clara Gowases....
  
  

Clara Gowases

Clara Gowases

Clara Gowases is a Namibian teacher and politician. Gowases was elected the chairperson of the Republic Party in September 2009 and subsequently listed second on the party's electoral list for the 2009 general election. Gowases missed out on being elected to the NA as the party only won a single...

; Mudge resigned in 2011 and was replaced by Gowases