1. Eric Biwa (1953)

Namibian Politician

Eric Biwa is a former Namibian politician with the Patriotic Union Movement a party which was a member of the United Democratic Front.

2. Peya Mushelenga (1975)

Namibian Politician

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...

3. Jhonny Haikella Hakaye (1958)

Namibian Politician

Jhonny Haikella Hakaye is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization Hakaye was first elected to the National Council in 1993. He is the Chief...

4. Isak Katali (1958)

Namibian Politician

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...

5. Angelika Muharukua (1958)

Namibian Politician

Angelika Muharukua is a Namibian politician. An ethnic Herero from northwestern Namibia Muharukua joined the South West Africa People's Organization in 1979. She was a surprise choice by President Sam...

6. Themistokles Dudu Murorua (1958)

Namibian Politician

Themistokles Dudu Murorua is a Namibian politician. A member of the United Democratic Front Murorua has been the governor of Kunene Region since 2005. From 1999-2005 Murorua was a member...

7. Victor Simunja (1958)

Namibian Politician

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...

8. Cornelius Thuhageni Njoba (Unknow)

Namibian Politician

Cornelius Thuhageni Njoba was the chief of the Ovamboland bantustan in Namibia then known as South West Africa from August 1975 to July 1980. Njoba also a former President of...

9. Mose Penaani Tjitendero (1943)

Namibian Politician

Mose Penaani Tjitendero was a Namibian politician and educator. Born near Okahandja Tjitendero joined the South West Africa People's Organization and was the Speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia...

10. Hosea Kutako (1870)

Namibian Politician

Chief Hosea Komombumbi Kutako was an early Namibian nationalist leader and member of the South West African People's Organization. Kutako alongside Rev. Michael Scott led petitions to the United Nations...

11. Moses ǁGaroëb (1942)

Namibian Politician

Moses Mague ǁGaroëb was a Namibian politician founding member of SWAPO and member of SWAPO's Politburo and Central Committee. During his political career ǁGaroëb served in the Constituent Assembly of...

12. Ida Hoffmann (1947)

Namibian Politician

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...

13. Nickey Iyambo (1936)

Namibian Politician

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...

14. Ponhele ya France (1948)

Namibian Politician

Ponhele Andrew Mbidi ya France was a Namibian politician and trade unionist. A longtime member of SWAPO ya France was a elected into the National Assembly of Namibia from 2000-2005....

15. Petrus Iilonga (1947)

Namibian Politician

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 served...

16. Alpheus ǃNaruseb (1954)

Namibian Politician

Alpheus ǀGou-ǃna ǃNaruseb 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...

17. Hidipo Hamutenya (1939)

Namibian Politician

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...

18. Mishake Muyongo (1940)

Namibian Politician

Mishake Muyongo is a Namibian politician and former Member of Parliament who is currently living in exile in Denmark. Muyongo was born in Linyanti. In September 1964 Muyongo became the...

19. Billy Mwaningange (1945)

Namibian Politician

Mwaningange is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO Mwaningange was elected to the National Assembly of Namibia in the 2009 general election. He was formerly the governor of Ohangwena...

20. Niko Bessinger (1948)

Namibian Politician

Niko Bessinger was a Namibian politician and independence activist. Bessinger was born on 12 June 1948 in Walvis Bay South West Africa. He studied at St. Bonifacius Roman Catholic Primary...

21. Hermanus Beukes (1913)

Namibian Politician

Hermanus Christoffel Beukes was a Coloured Namibian politician and activist. Beukes was a frequent petitioner of the United Nations because of Apartheid South Africa's actions while Namibia was held...

22. Philemon Moongo (1943)

Namibian Politician

Philemon Moongo is a Namibian politician. A member of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance Moongo has been a member of the National Assembly since 1995.

23. Mzee Kaukungwa (1919)

Namibian Politician

Simon Hafeni Mzee Kaukungwa born on October 6 1919 is a Namibian politician war veteran and founding member of SWAPO. He was born at Ohalushu village in Ovamboland.

24. Jonker Afrikaner (1785)

Namibian Politician

Jonker Afrikaner was the fourth Captain of the Orlam Afrikaners in South West Africa succeeding his father Jager Afrikaner in 1823. Soon after becoming Captein he left his father’s settlement...

25. Ben Amathila (1938)

Namibian Politician

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....

26. Clemens Kapuuo (1923)

Namibian Politician

Clemens Kapuuo was a Namibian school teacher shopkeeper and chief of the Herero people of Namibia. Kapuuo was one of the leading opponents of South African rule of his country...

27. Clemens Kashuupulwa (1948)

Namibian Politician

Clemens Handuukeme Kashuupulwa is a Namibian politician. He is the current governor of Oshana Region and since 1997 a member of the Central Committee of SWAPO.

28. Dawid Bezuidenhout (1935)

Namibian Politician

Dawid Bezuidenhout was a teacher and politician in South West Africa. A teacher by profession Bezuidenhout entered politics in South West Africa in 1959 as the founding Vice President of...

29. Lempy Lucas (1961)

Namibian Politician

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. Lucas has held a number...

30. Hifikepunye Pohamba (1935)

Namibian Politician

Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba is a Namibian politician who has been President of Namibia since March 2005. He won the 2004 election overwhelmingly as the candidate of SWAPO the ruling party...

31. Kaire Mbuende (1953)

Namibian Politician

Kaire Mbuende is a Namibian politician and diplomat. Mbuenda has been the Namibian ambassador to the United Nations since his appointment in August 2006. An ethnic Herero Mbuende has been...

32. Joel Kaapanda (1945)

Namibian Politician

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...

33. Lydia Katjita (1953)

Namibian Politician

Lydia Katjita is a former member of the National Assembly of Namibia and the Pan-African Parliament.

34. Nangolo Ithete (1941)

Namibian Politician

Nangolo Ithete was a Namibian politician. Ithete was born in Okahao Omusati Region and joined SWAPO in the early 1960s and went into exile with SWAPO to Dar es Salaam...

35. Moses Katjiuongua (1942)

Namibian Politician

Moses Katjikuru Katjiuongua was a Namibian politician minister in the Transitional Government of National Unity member of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia and member of the National Assembly of Namibia.

36. Nangolo Mbumba (1941)

Namibian Politician

Nangolo Mbumba is a Namibian politician and educator. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization Mbumba has head a number of Namibian ministries; Agriculture Water and Rural Development...

37. Richard Kapelwa Kabajani (Unknow)

Namibian Politician

Richard Kapelwa Kabajani was a Namibian activist militant diplomat and politician. Kabajani was a military commander for SWAPO during the Namibian War of Independence.

38. Ngohauvi Lydia Kavetu (1965)

Namibian Politician

Ngohauvi Lydia Kavetu is a Namibian politician. A member of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance Kavetu has been a member of the National Council of Namibia since 2004. She represents Opuwo...

39. Rihupisa Justus Kandando (1963)

Namibian Politician

Rihupisa Justus Kandando is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West African National Union Kandando was the party's leader from 1998 until he was replaced by Usutuaije Maamberua.

40. Jesaya Nyamu (1942)

Namibian Politician

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...

41. Lucia Basson (1953)

Namibian Politician

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...

42. Marco Hausiku (1953)

Namibian Politician

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...

43. Mburumba Kerina (1932)

Namibian Politician

Eric Getzen more commonly known as Mburumba Kerina is a Namibian politician academic and author. He is a co-founder of SWAPO NUDO and FCN and the founder of a host...

44. Johan de Waal (1848)

Namibian Politician

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. De Waal...

45. Marlene Mungunda (1954)

Namibian Politician

Marlene Mungunda is a Namibian politician. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization Mungunda served as Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare from March 2005 to December...

46. Richard Kamwi (1950)

Namibian Politician

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...

47. Andimba Toivo ya Toivo (1924)

Namibian Politician

Herman Andimba Toivo ya Toivo is a Namibian politician who was active in the independence movement. He is a founding member of the Ovamboland People's Congress in 1957 at the...

48. Loide Kasingo (1954)

Namibian Politician

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...

49. Andrew Matjila (Unknow)

Namibian Politician

Andrew Matjila is a Namibian politician. A member of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance Matjila took part in the Transitional Government of National Unity from 1985-1989. Matjila also was a member...

50. John Pandeni (1950)

Namibian Politician

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...