Hulda Shipanga

Hulda Kamboi Shipanga (born Ngatjikare , born October 28, 1926 in Aminuis , South West Africa , † April 26, 2010 in Windhoek ), was a Namibian nurse , midwife and advisor to the Namibian Ministry of Health . She was the first black female nurse in Namibia to be appointed head nurse.

biography

Shipanga completed training as a teacher and nurse in South Africa . She went back to South West Africa and worked in a hospital in Windhoek. She later went on to train as a midwife, a job that she then carried out in Old Location , a separate area for the black residents of Windhoek. When a riot broke out there on December 10, 1959, she was one of the few nurses who tended to the wounded, while all the doctors in Windhoek's hospitals, all white at the time under the Bantu Education Act , refused to treat them .

It was formed for the OP -Krankenschwester further and specialized in the UK on orthopedic surgery and pediatrics . This made her the most qualified nurse during the end of South West Africa and during the period of the transitional government in Namibia. Shortly after Namibia's independence, she became the first black nurse to be appointed head nurse. Previously, such promotion was prohibited by apartheid laws.

President Sam Nujoma appointed Shipanga as an advisor to Health Secretary Nickey Iyambo , although she was already of retirement age at the time. Shipanga also continued her consultancy work under his successor, Libertina Amathila . She returned to Aminuis at the age of 74. She died in Windhoek in 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Namibia: Kamboi Hulda Shipanga - First Black Matron (1926 to 2010) . allafrica.com.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} "First black Namibian nurse passes on" ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). namibian.com.
3. ↑ Klaus Dierks. "Biographies of Namibia Personalities" (entry for Nora Schimming-Chase)