Frans Indongo

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Frans Aupa Indongo (born January 15, 1936 in Ongwediva , South West Africa , today Namibia ) is a Namibian businessman and company manager . Among other things, he is CEO of the Frans Indongo Group and is considered one of the five richest Namibians. For many years he was a politician in numerous Namibian parties.

Career

Indongo is considered to be one of the most successful businessmen in Namibia and has already achieved great economic wealth during the apartheid period before independence in 1990. He began his career in 1950 as a brick manufacturer in Walvis Bay . He opened a tailor shop in Oranjemund and in 1961 a general goods store in the north of the country from which a supermarket chain developed. He built and bought numerous properties across Namibia such as the Frans Indongo Lodge . Indongo is also involved in agriculture, fishing, the sugar and automobile trade, and tourism.

Since 2008 he has combined all of his companies in the Frans Indongo Group .

politics

Frans Indongo entered the political arena in the 1970s as a member of the National Democratic Party , which later became part of the Democratic Gym Alliance . He held numerous political offices in Ovamboland and was a regional minister from 1975 to 1980. In the late 1980s, Indongo resigned from all political offices and devoted himself to his life as a businessman.

Honors

In 2001 Indongo received an honorary doctorate from the University of Namibia . In Windhoek , a main street and an office and business complex , the Frans Indongo Gardens , is named after him. In March 2016, a market with an observation tower and an adjacent bus station was opened in Oshakati under the name “Dr. Frans Aupa Indongo Open Market ” inaugurated by President Hage Geingob .

literature

  • Gamsberg Macmillan (Ed.): The Most Successful Businessman in Namibia - The Rise of Frans Aupa Indongo. Gamsberg Macmillan, Windhoek 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frans Indongo re-brands group, Namibia Economist, January 18, 2008
  2. ↑ Entry about Frans Indongo in the personal database of the Namibia Institute for Democracy ( Memento from July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Frans Aupa Indongo Open Market inaugurated. lelamobile.com. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Indongo, Frans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Indongo, Frans Aupa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Namibian businessman and company manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Ongwediva , South West Africa