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Inge Zaamwani-Kamwi
Inge Zaamwani-Kamwi (born 11 November 1958) is a Namibian businesswoman and presidential advisor. On 17th May 2025, she was sworn in as a non-voting member of the National Assembly and subsequently appointed as the new Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, and Land Reform after Mac Hengari was relieved of his duties. She was formerly the managing director of Namdeb, the mining joint venture between the government of Namibia and De Beers corporation, since her appointment in 1999. Prior to her position at Namdeb, Zaamwani was an official in Namibia's Ministry of Mines and Energy from 1995-1998. However, she left the company in April 2015. Education Zaamwani studied at the United Nations Institute for Namibia (UNIN) in Zambia from 1977-1981, when she graduated with a diploma in development studies. She has also attained post graduate leadership training from INSEAD, France, the University of Cape Town and Harvard Business School (in collaboration with the University of Witwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grootfontein
Grootfontein (, named after the nearby hot springs) is a city with 26,839 inhabitants in the Otjozondjupa Region of central Namibia. It is one of the three towns in the Otavi Triangle, situated on the B8 road (Namibia), B8 national road that leads from Otavi to the Caprivi Strip. Overview The place was known to the Herero people, Herero under the name ''Otjivanda''. In 1885, 40 Boer families from the north-west of South Africa settled at Grootfontein. Part of the Dorsland trekkers, they were heading towards Angola. When that territory fell under Portugal, Portuguese control, they turned back and established the Upingtonia, Republic of Upingtonia at Grootfontein. Abandoned by 1887, it became the headquarters of the South West Africa Company in 1893. In 1908 the Roman Catholic church established a Mission (station), mission in Grootfontein as the basis of their eventually successful attempt to establish missions in Kavango Region, Kavango. Like all the towns in the Otavi Triangl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
