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1st National Assembly Of Namibia
Below is a list of the 1st National Assembly of the Republic of Namibia. Individual members were selected by political parties voted for in the 1989 election, which also determined the members of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia that preceded the 1st National Assembly. The members were in the National Assembly from independence on 21 March 1990 until 21 March 1995. Members are chosen by their parties. Parties are voted in via proportional representation. The seat distribution per party was as follows: * South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO): 41 * Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA): 21 * United Democratic Front (UDF): 4 * Action Christian National (ACN): 3 * Namibia National Front (NNF): 1 * Namibia Patriotic Front (NPF): 1 * Federal Convention of Namibia (FCN): 1 Members The following people were elected to the 1st National Assembly: South West Africa People's Organization * Asser Kuveri Kapere - Chairperson * Mose Penaani Tjitendero - Speaker * Hage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constituent Assembly Of Namibia 1989
Constituent or constituency may refer to: Politics * An electoral district or constituency * Constituent, an individual citizen or voting, voter representative government, represented by a politician within an electoral district, state, community, or organization * Advocacy group or constituency * Constituent assembly * Constituent state (territory, country, etc.): an administrative division of a larger state Other meanings * Constituent (linguistics), a word or a group of words that function as a single unit within a hierarchical structure * Constituent quark, a current quark with a notional "covering" See also * Ingredient * Part (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hage Geingob
Hage Gottfried Geingob (3 August 1941 – 4 February 2024) was a Namibian politician who served as the third president of Namibia from 2015 until his death in February 2024. Geingob was the country's first prime minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ... from 1990 to 2002, and served again from 2012 to 2015. Between 2008 and 2012 Geingob served as Ministry of Trade and Industry (Namibia), Minister of Trade and Industry. In November 2014, Geingob was 2014 Namibian general election, elected president of Namibia by an overwhelming margin. In November 2017, Geingob became the third president of the ruling SWAPO Party after winning by a large margin at the party's sixth Congress. He served as the party's president until his death. In August 2018, Geingob began a one- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moses ǁGaroëb
Moses Mague ǁGaroëb (14 April 1942, in Arixas near Mariental – 19 August 1997, in Windhoek) 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 Namibia and was a Member of Parliament from the day of Namibian independence, 21 March 1990. He was appointed Minister of Labour and Human Resources in 1995, a position he held until his death. Career ǁGaroëb was born in April 1942 at , Arixas near Mariental as the son of Samuel Geingob and Rebecca Geingos. At the age of 17, he took an active part in the demonstrations against the forced removal from Windhoek's Old Location to Katutura, and witnessed the massacre of 12 December 1959. He went into exile in 1961 as a member of SWANU, and joined SWAPO in the same year. He went to study in the United States and appeared before the United Nations in the early 1960s. After graduating with a BA in Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Ekandjo
Jerry Lukiiko Ekandjo (born 17 March 1947) is a Namibian politician, former anti-apartheid activist and political prisoner. He is one of the founding members of the SWAPO Youth League and has been one of the most active internal leading members of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) during the liberation struggle. He spent eight years in prison on Robben Island after being charged for inciting violence in 1973. Ekandjo has been a member of the cabinet of Namibia from independence in 1990 until 2018, serving the SWAPO government in various ministerial positions. His last appointment was Minister of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture, from which he was recalled in early 2018. In 2012 he was a candidate for the vice-president of SWAPO and came second to Hage Geingob who eventually became the president of Namibia in 2015. In 2017 Ekandjo was nominated as a candidate for the president of SWAPO and came second again to Hage Geingob. Political career E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Dierks
Karl Otto Ludwig Klaus DierksJoe Pütz, Heidi von Egidy, Perri Caplan: ''Political Who's Who of Namibia''. Magus, Windhoek 1989, Namibia series Vol. 1, ISBN 0-620-10225-X, pp. 203, 204 (19 February 1936 – 17 March 2005) was a German-born Namibian deputy government minister, a transport planner and civil engineer in Namibia. Biography Dierks was born in 1936 in Berlin-Dahlem, Germany. He studied civil engineering and history at Technische Universität Berlin and earned a diploma in Engineering in 1965 and doctorates in 1965 and 1992. Immediately after receiving his diploma, Dierks became an engineer in South Africa before moving to what is now Namibia.Exhibition of Dierks photography , NamibiaPlus.com, accessed 7 August 2008 In 1982 Dierks became a member of resistance movement |
Danie Botha
Danie is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Danie Brits, retired South African professional wrestler and former South African Heavyweight Champion *Danie Coetzee (born 1977), South African rugby union footballer *Danie Craven (1910–1993), former Western Province, Eastern Province, Northern Transvaal and Springbok rugby union player * Danie G. Krige, South African Mining Engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics *Danie Gerber (born 1958), former South African rugby union player, who played for South Africa between 1980 and 1992 *Danie Keulder (born 1973), former Namibian cricketer *Danie Mellor (born 1971), Indigenous Australian artist, winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award *Danie Rossouw (born 1978), South African rugby union footballer who plays as a loose forward *Danie Visser (born 1961), former professional tennis player from South Africa *Danie Voges, retired South African professional wrestler who is a former 2-tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem Biwa
Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, Guillaume in French, Guilherme in Portuguese, Guillermo in Spanish and Wilhelm in German. Nicknames that are derived from Willem are Jelle, Pim, Willie, Willy and Wim. Given name * Willem I (1772–1843), King of the Netherlands * Willem II (1792–1849), King of the Netherlands * Willem III (1817–1890), King of the Netherlands * Willem of the Netherlands (1840–1879), Dutch prince * Willem-Alexander (b. 1967), King of the Netherlands * Willem Aantjes (1923–2015), Dutch politician * Willem Adelaar (b. 1948), Dutch linguist * Willem Andriessen (1887–1964), Dutch pianist and composer * Willem Arondeus (1894–1943), Dutch artist and author, WWII Resistance member * Willem Barentsz (ca. 1550–1597), Dutch navigator and ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Bessinger
Nikolaus Onverwag 'Niko' Bessinger (12 June 1948 – 25 March 2008) was a Namibian politician and independence activist. Bessinger was born on 12 June 1948 in Walvis Bay, South West Africa. Born into the Goreseb clan which is closely related to the Goreseb Royal House. He attended St. Bonifacius Roman Catholic Primary School in Windhoek, Augustineum Secondary School in Okahandja and matriculated at Athlone High School in Cape Town in 1966. He then studied architecture at the University of Cape Town from 1969 to 1972 before receiving a Fulbright scholarship to study at the University of Detroit in the United States. He received the National Dean's List Award in 1979 and 1980. Bessinger graduated with a B.Sc. (Architecture) in 1980 and a B.Arch. in 1981 before being registered as an Architect in Namibia in 1983 (Member of the Namibia Institute of Architects and the Namibia Council of Architects and Quantity Surveyors). In Namibia he joined ''Kerry McNamara and Associates'' as partn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Ausiku
Helmut is a German name. Variants include Hellmut, Helmuth, and Hellmuth. From old German, the first element deriving from either ''heil'' ("healthy") or ''hiltja'' ("battle"), and the second from ''muot'' ("spirit, mind, mood"). Helmut may refer to: People A–L *Helmut Angula (born 1945), Namibian politician * Helmut Ashley (1919–2021), Austrian director and cinematographer *Helmut Bakaitis (born 1944), Australian director and actor *Helmut Berger (1944–2023), Austrian actor *Helmut Dantine (1917–1982), Austrian actor * Helmut Deutsch (born 1945), Austrian classical pianist *Helmut Ditsch (born 1962), Argentine painter * Hellmut Diwald (1924–1993), German historian * Helmut Donner (born 1941), Austrian high jumper *Helmut Duckadam (1959–2024), Romanian footballer *Helmut Fischer (1926–1997), German actor *Hellmut von Gerlach (1866–1935), German journalist * Helmut Goebbels (1935–1945), only son of Joseph Goebbels *Helmut Graeb, German electrical engineer *Helmut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahas Angula
Nahas Gideon Angula (born 22 August 1943)Profile on Namibian parliament website is a n politician who served as the third from 21 March 2005 to 4 December 2012. He was succeeded by in a cabinet reshuffle after the 2012 SWAPO Party congress. He subsequently served as |
Helmut Angula
Helmut Pau Kangulohi Angula (born 11 November 1945) is a Namibian businessman, politician, former cabinet minister and writer. He is currently the director of various private companies after leaving government in 2010 and a longtime member of the central committee and the politburo of the ruling SWAPO party. Biography Angula was born in Ontananga, Oshikoto Region, and joined SWAPO in 1963, just three years after the movement's founding. Angula holds an M.Sc Degree from Voronezh State University in the USSR. During his time with SWAPO, Angula served as the deputy principal of the Health and Education Center in Nyango, Zambia, from 1975 to 1976 and then rose to director of the center until 1977. From 1977 to 1986, he was SWAPO's chief representative to Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, and from 1986 to 1989, he served as the SWAPO's permanent observer at the United Nations in New York and as the chief representative to North America. He was elected to the National Assem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solomon Amadhila
Solomon (), also called Jedidiah, was the fourth monarch of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), Kingdom of Israel and Judah, according to the Hebrew Bible. The successor of his father David, he is described as having been the penultimate ruler of all Twelve Tribes of Israel under an amalgamated History of ancient Israel and Judah, Israel and Judah. The hypothesized dates of Solomon's reign are from 970 to 931 BCE. According to the biblical narrative, after Solomon's death, his son and successor Rehoboam adopted harsh policies towards the northern Israelites, who then rejected the reign of the Davidic line, House of David and sought Jeroboam as their king. In the aftermath of Jeroboam's Revolt, the Israelites were split between the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), Kingdom of Israel in the north (Samaria) and the Kingdom of Judah in the south (Judea); the Bible depicts Rehoboam and the rest of Solomon's Patrilineality#In the Bible, patrilineal descendants ruling over independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
