Moses Tjitendero
Mose Penaani Tjitendero (born December 25, 1943 in Okahandja , South West Africa , today Namibia , † April 26, 2006 in Windhoek , Namibia) was a Namibian politician.
In 1963 Tjitendero went into exile in Tanzania because he was denied an education under the apartheid regime. He later studied at American universities in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts , where he earned an academic doctorate in 1976. With the support of the UN , he opened the UN Institute for Namibia in Lusaka , Zambia at the same time . Until he returned home shortly before independence, Tjitendero took care of the vocational training of young Namibians in exile at the UN institute and in Angola. In 1981 he joined the SWAPO when he was speaker of the independence of Namibia on 21 March 1990 to 2004 National Assembly (ger .: National Assembly ). He was also a member of the SWAPO Central Committee from 1981 until his death in 2006. He was a co-founder and chairman of the SADC Paliamentary Forum from 1999 to 2006. He's on his hero Acker (English Heroes Acre buried) near Windhoek.
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National Assembly: Mose Tjitendero (1989–2005) | Theo-Ben Gurirab (2005–2015) | Peter Katjavivi (since 2015)
National Council: Kandy Nehova (1993-2004) | Asser Kapere (2004-2015) | Margaret Mensah-Williams (2015-2019) | Bernard Sibalatani (since 2019)
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| SURNAME | Tjitendero, Moses |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tjitendero, Mose Penaani (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Namibian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Okahandja |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 2006 |
| Place of death | Windhoek |