Sirrka Namutenya Anneli Mwahafa Ausiku (born 1964) is a

Namibia Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the no ...

n administrator and politician, currently serving as a legislator in the

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. She was the governor of

Kavango West Kavango West is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia. Its capital and only self-governed settlement is Nkurenkuru, its governor is Sirkka Ausiku. The Region was created in 2013 when the Kavango Region was split into Kavango East and Kavango We ...

Region since 2014 to 2025. Ausiku was born on 9 April 1964 in

Nkurenkuru Nkurenkuru (1.093 m above sea level) is a town on the south-western banks of the Kavango River. It is the capital of the Kavango West Region of northern Namibia, located west of Rundu. It is also a former mission station of the Finnish Missio ...

in the Kavango West Region. She holds a

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in Higher Education as well as a BA degree from the

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, and a

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in Public Policy and Administration from the

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. She has worked as teacher at Kandjimi Murangi Secondary School, as an education administrator, and as a

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in the Namibian government. Ausiku holds the Most Excellent Order of the Eagle, Second Class.

Governor

President Pohamba announced Ausiku's nomination as governor of the newly created Kavango West region at a

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Party Central Committee meeting. Prior to her appointment, she was the Permanent Secretary in the Namibian Ministry of Gender Equality and later the Ministry of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development. During her tenure, Kavango's council completed constituency offices at Mpungu and Ncamagoro and established a regional government office complex in

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