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Dr Libertine Amathila - Deputy Prime Minister Mrs. Amathila is one of few women in the Windhoek cabinet. She was part of the cabinet as health minister from the beginning of the new dispensation on. She is a very committed and courageous politician, who says what she thinks, stands up for her convictions and enjoys great respect in the country, throughout the political spectrum. Her main focus lies iin the fight against Aids and the improvement of medical care in rural areas. In 2000 Dr Amathila was elected president of the WHO.Dr Theo-Ben Gurirab - President of the National Assembly  Dr Gurirab was born in 1939 in Usakos. In 1960 he acquired a teacher's diploma at the Augustineum Training College in Okahandja. Gurirab went into exile to Tanzania in 1962. In 1969 he started studying Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and completed his Master's Degree in 1971. During his studies he was also the SWAPO representative at the United Nations. In 1989 he returned to Namibia and contributed substantially to the formulation of the new constitution. He became the first Foreign Minister of the new democratic Namibia.Ben Ulenga - Opposition Leader of the COD  Ben Ulenga is the party leader of the still relatively young Congress of Democrats, which at present holds 7 seats in parliament. Ulenga once was an active member of SWAPO. In 1976 he was arrested and spent 8 years imprisoned on Robben Island in South Africa, together with Nelson Mandela. In 1990 he became a member of the government and later the ambassador in London. Disillusioned, he resigned in 1998 and left the SWAPO, after Nujoma had changed the constitution in order to remain president for a third office period. Ulenga is one of the most outspoken critics of the Nujoma government. He accuses the president of arrogance and power-clinging. He thinks the land reform policy is not well-devised, the economic development not properly managed and the dealings of the government with the media and with investors, inappropriate and counterproductive.The opposition party COD has a website. |
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Dr Sam Nujoma - First State President  Sam Nujoma was born in 1929 in the village Etunda in the Omusati district as one of ten children. He grew up in poverty and as a small boy tended his father's cattle. From 1937 to 1945 he visited the Okahao Finnish Mission School and then moved to his aunt in Walvis Bay. A few years later he found work at the railways in Windhoek. At that time he also attended evening school. In 1956 he married Kovambo Theopoldine Katjimune. The Nujomas have three sons and a daughter. At about the same time his political career started when he became a workers' leader. 1959 he was elected as the leader of the Owambo People's Organisation (OPO) which later became the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO). After demonstrations in the township of Katutura, it was suppressed by the apartheid government. Supported by the Herero chief Hosea Kutako, shortly afterwards Nujoma went into exile to New York. There he led the SWAPO team at the United Nations between 1977 and 1978 and contributed to the UN resolutions, until Namibia eventually gained independence. In 1990 he was elected the first president of the new Republic of Namibia and has been re-elected twice, in 1994 and 1999.Hifikepunye Pohamba - State President  Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba was born August 18, 1935 in Ovamboland. He is one of the founding members of SWAPO. He went into exile to Tansania in 1961 and studied in Moscow from 1981 to 1982. Pohamba became member of Nujuma's cabinet in 1990. Pohamba took office as president on March 21, 2005 and has since distinguished himself by careful but decisive moves against corruption. Nahas Angula - Prime MinisterNahas Gideon Angula was born in 1943 in Ovamboland and became a member of SWAPO in 1967. He studied politics from 1969 to 1972 in Sambia and New York. Angula is the current Prime Minister of Namibia. He entered into office on March 2005, when his appointment was announced by new president Hifikepunye Pohamba. A member of the National Assembly since 1990, Angula was minister of education, sport, and culture from 1990 to 1995 and minister of higher education from 1995 until 2005. |
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