Moses Katjiuongua

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Moses Katjikuru Katjiuongua (born April 24, 1942 in Windhoek , South West Africa ; † March 8, 2011 ibid) was a Namibian politician . He was temporarily chairman of the South West African National Union (SWANU), minister in the transitional government before the country's independence, member of the Constituent Assembly and member of the Namibian National Assembly .

Life

Katjiuongua attended the primary school in Aminuis and a college in Bechuanaland , in what is now Botswana . He left his home when he was 13 years old. From 1956 to 1959 he attended the Swedish Confederation of Labor College. Katjiuongua then stayed for a while in various African countries and worked, among other things, for the SWANU office in Cairo. He studied journalism from 1961 to 1962 as a SWANU scholarship holder in Magdeburg in the GDR and traveled to other countries in the then Eastern Bloc . During a trip to China, Katjiuongua met, among others, the Chinese state and party leader Mao Zedong .

He then lived in exile in Sweden from the mid-1960s , where he continued his education and political work for SWANU. From 1976 he worked for The Namibian Review , a publication published in Spånga by Namibians in exile from various political groups. Katjiuongua continued his studies from 1978 to 1980 at the University of Stockholm , where he graduated with a Bachelor (BA) in Political Science and a Master (MA) in International Relations, Economics and Philosophy. He later studied in Ottawa , Canada , where he graduated with a master's degree in public administration.

Katjiuongua returned to Namibia in the early 1980s and worked as deputy head of the public relations department at Rössing Uranium in 1981 and 1982 .

Katjiuongua was a Herero and his father was a personal advisor to Chief Hosea Kutako , one of the leaders of the early resistance movement and co-founder of SWANU. In 1982 Katjiuongua was elected chairman of SWANU. In 1985 he was appointed Minister of Manpower, Health and Welfare by the multi-party conference in Windhoek in the internationally unrecognized Namibian transitional government before the country's independence. From December 17, 1985 to March 16, 1986 and January 18, 1988 to April 17, 1988 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers and thus de facto Prime Minister of the country.

He kept the ministerial office until 1989, but his reputation suffered from this cooperation with the South African apartheid regime .

He founded the National Patriotic Front (NPF) for the constituent assembly elections in 1989 and was able to win a seat that he retained after the assembly became the first Namibian parliament. After independence, he was considered a respected opposition politician in Namibia, which was politically dominated by SWAPO . Most recently Katjiuongua supported the opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP).

Katjiuongua was married and had four children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Moses Katjikuru Katjiuongua in the Munzinger archive , accessed on March 9, 2011 ( beginning of the article freely available)
  2. ↑ Tor Sellström: Sweden and national liberation in Southern Africa: Solidarity and assistance 1970-1994 (Volume 2) , Uppsala 2002, p. 325. Google Books
  3. ↑ a b Michael Cowen, Liisa Laakso: Multi-party elections in Africa , Oxford 2002, page 194. Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Katjiuongua, Moses
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Katjiuongua, Moses Katjikuru (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Namibian politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Windhoek
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2011
Place of death Windhoek