Agnes Kafula

Agnes Mpingana Kafula (* 1. November 1955 in Onuumba , South West Africa , now Namibia ) is a Namibian SWAPO - politician . She was Mayor of Windhoek from 2012 to 2014 .

Life

After finishing school in Oshakati and working as a teacher, Agnes Kafula went to Angola in 1977 to support the SWAPO's struggle for freedom . She was one of the few who survived the Cassinga massacre of May 4, 1978, in which an airborne attack by the South African Defense Force on a SWAPO training and refugee camp claimed numerous victims. After completing military training, she worked as an adult education teacher in Angola and ran a daycare center in Cassinga. In 1978 she attended a child development course in Lusaka , Zambia . She trained in childcare at Bournville College in Birmingham , Great Britain . In Moscow she completed a certificate course in social sciences. On her return she was in Luanda , Angola, among other things, assistant to the director of the United Nations Vocational Training Center for Namibians (UNVCT) .

After Namibia's independence, she worked for various government ministries. In May 2004 she was elected to the Windhoek City Council. She was a member of the Management Committee (2005–2008), Deputy Mayor in 2008 and Chairwoman of the City's Management Committee from 2011 to 2012. Since 2011, she has been President of the Association of Local Authority in Namibia (ALAN) .

Agnes Kafula was elected Mayor of Windhoek on November 26, 2012 to succeed Elaine Trepper . On December 2, 2013, he was re-elected.

Web links

• City of Windhoek. Current Mayor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Theresia Tjihenuna: From horrors of Cassinga to mayorship , Prime Focus, March 2013 (English)
2. ↑ Kafula remains Mayor of Windhoek , Allgemeine Zeitung (Windhoek) , December 3, 2013