Peter Nanyemba

Peter Eneas Nanyemba (Ndilimani) (1935 – 1 April 1983) was a Namibian freedom fighter and Commander of the Swapo Party's military wing, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN). He also arranged training and equipment for PLAN.

Nanyemba grew up in Owamboland in the north of Namibia and had to work as a herder during his school years. He subsequently moved to Walvis Bay where he participated in the circles critical of the apartheid regime. Nanyemba left Namibia in 1962 to participate in the anti-apartheid movement. He served as a Swapo representative in East Africa, and was posted in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. He was subsequently elected Secretary of Defence. He was killed on 1 April 1983 in a car accident in Lubango in the Angola's Huila Province, when his car collided with a petrol tanker in Lubango, Angola. His remains were repatriated from Angola 31 years after his death along with those of other liberation stalwarts such as; Walde Homateni Kaluenja, Isak Shikongo, Natalia Ndahambelela Shikangala Mavulu and Augustus Nghaamwa.

Nanyemba was the Swapo secretary for defence in exile between 1970 and until at his death in 1983. He died when his car collided with a petrol tanker in Lubango, Angola. Prior to his appointment as defence secretary Nanyemba served as Swapo representative in Botswana in 1962 and representative in Tanzania from 1963 until his appointment as secretary for defence.

A primary school was built and named after him in Angola in 2005, also a rehabilitation of the cemetery and a monument outside Lubango at the cost of N$ 8,5 million.