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1987-89
Minister-Delegate of Local Government & Housing
Libertine Appolus Amathila
1989-96 Minister of Local Government and Lands
1995-96 Minister of Regional Government and Housing
1996-2005
Minister of Health and Social Service
2005-10 Deputy Prime Minister
President of the WHO Assembly
in
2000.
(b. 1940-)
1989-96
Minister of Youth and Sport
Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana
1996-2000 Minister of Land, Resettelments and Rehabilitation
2000-10 Attorney General
2005-12
Minister
of Justice
2012- Minister of Home Affairs
1989-96 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah
1996-2002 Head
of the Department of Women in the Office of the President
2000-05 Minister of Women's Affairs and Child Welfare
2005-08 Minister of
Information and Broadcasting
2008-12 Minister of Environment and Tourism
2012- Minister of Foreign Affairs
(from 2015 Cooperation and International Relations)
2015- Deputy Prime Minister
Acted twice as Foreign Minister in 2005. Became
Secretary General of SWAPO in 1996.
1996-2000
Deputy Minister of Health Clara Bohitile
2000-05 Deputy Minister of Basic Education, Sport and Culture
1996-2000 Deputy Minister of Local and Regional Government
and Housing Loide Lucky Shoopala Kasingo
2000-05 Deputy Minister of Home Affairs
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly since 2010.
1997-2003
Cabinet Member, Director-General of the National Planning Commission
2003-15 Minister of Finance
2015- Prime Minister Saara
Kuugongelwa-Amadhila
Circa
1997-2000 Deputy Minister of Prisons and Correctional Services N.N.
2000-05
Deputy Minister of Labour Rosalia Nghidinwa
2005-12 Minister
of Home Affairs and Immigration
2012-15 Minister of
Gender Equality and Child Welfare
2000-04 Deputy Minister of Women's
Affairs and Child Welfare Marlene Mungunda
2004-05 Minister of Labour
2005-10 Minister
of Gender Equality and Child
Welfare
2004-10 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Lempy
Lucas
Deputy Chief Whip for SWAPO Party and Deputy Chairperson of
the whole House Committee 2000-04. (b. 1961-).
2004- Deputy Minister of Women's Affairs Angelika Muharukua
2004-10 Deputy
Minister of Child Welfare
2005-10 Deputy Minister of
Home Affairs and Immigration
Theopolina Mushelenga
Mayor of Ondangwa 1992-1995 and 1998-2000
2005-15
Deputy Minister of
Health
Petrina
Haingura Ndaitwah
2010-15 Deputy Minister of Social Services
2010-12
Minister
of Gender Equality
Doreen Sioka
2012-15 Minister of Labour and
Social Welfare
2015- Minister of Gender
Assistant Whip for the Swapo Party 1994-95, Deputy
Chairperson of the Whole House Committee
1995-2005 and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly
2005-10
2010-15
Deputy Minister of Regional and Local Government and Housing Priscilla Beukes
2012-15 Deputy Minister of Youth, National Service, Sport
and Culture Juliet Kavetuna
2015- Deputy Minister of Health and Social
Services
2015- Minister of Urban Development Sophia Shaningwa
2015- Minister of Higher Education, Training and Innovation Itah Kandji Murangi
2015- Minister of Education, Arts and Culture Katrina Hanse-Himarwa
2015- Deputy Minister in the Presidency in charge of Economic Planning Lucia
Ipumbu
2015- Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Training and
Innovation Becky Ndjoze-Ojo
2015- Deputy Minister of Education,
Arts and Culture Anna Nghipondoka
2015- Deputy Minister of Agriculture
Anna Shiweda
Last update
21.03.15