Anton von Wietersheim (born 10 June 1951) is a
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
n politician. Wietersheim was a member of the
Constituent Assembly of Namibia
Below is a list of members of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia, which became the National Assembly of Namibia upon independence in March 1990. Individual members were selected by political parties voted for in the 1989 election, the first de ...
from 1989 to 1990 and was
elected to the National Assembly as a
SWAPO candidate in 1990. He served as Minister of Agriculture before resigning in 1993.
In August 2009, Wietersheim re-entered politics as a member of the
Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), an opposition party that was created by dissident members of SWAPO. At the party congress in September 2009, Wietersheim was placed at the 5th spot, which was just below the party's central committee. In the
November 2009 parliamentary election, he was one of eight RDP candidates to win seats in the National Assembly.
In September 2010, von Wietersheim and eight other opposition politicians were sworn-in as members of the National Assembly following a six-month boycott due to perceived electoral irregularities in the 2009 election which were proven false by the supreme court of Namibia.
[, ''The Namibian'', 15 September 2010.]
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Living people
Members of the National Assembly (Namibia)
Rally for Democracy and Progress (Namibia) politicians
SWAPO politicians
White Namibian people
Namibian people of German descent
Agriculture ministers of Namibia
1951 births
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