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A health worker by profession, Nghidinwa ran several community health centres in the Okavango Region for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN). She represented the ELCIN at the Lutheran World Conference in 1987 and served on the Church's governing council from 1991 to 1996. [1] She was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia ...
This time, foreign sightseers angered Namibian authorities after posing naked atop the legendary Big Daddy Dune in the Namib Desert, as seen in photos circulating on social media.
In 2021 Theophelus was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of the year. [14] She also received the 2022 United Nations Population Award for her work advocating for women’s empowerment and adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Namibia [12] In 2021, Theofelus proposed a motion on the removal of the tax on sanitary pads in Parliament.
In 2004, women constituted 29% of all parliament members, placing Namibia at seventeenth in the world for female representation in parliament. [16] In 2014, the South West Africa People's Organisation introduced a policy committing to filling half of its seats in parliament with women, in addition to a "zebra" system in which a male prime ...
She was Minister of Regional and Local Government and Housing from March 21, 1990, to September 12, 1996, at which point she became Minister of Health and Social Services, [4] serving in that position until becoming Deputy-Prime Minister of Namibia on 21 March 2005.
Dewain Divelbliss shows off a blue star service banner at his home in the Pheasant Run neighborhood of Indianapolis, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. Divelbliss’s daughter is a staff sergeant serving in ...
In addition, she is the first woman to lead a political party in Namibia, and the country's first female presidential candidate. [1] She was appointed as the country's deputy minister of health and social services in March 2020 by Namibian President Hage Geingob. She has for a long time been advocating for social workers’ role in many aspects ...
People's Liberation Army of Namibia personnel [ edit ] Tobias Hainyeko (1932–1967), commander of the South West Africa Liberation Army (SWALA), predecessor of PLAN, 1962–1967