Utjiua Muinjangue

Esther Utjiua Muinjangue (born December 17, 1970 in South West Africa ) is a Namibian politician of the National Unity Democratic Organization of Namibia (NUDO). She is Herero . She has been Vice Minister for Health and Social Services since March 23, 2020, making her the first female opposition politician to have held such a high office since 1990.

Muinjangue is the first woman to head a Namibian party and was Namibia's first female presidential candidate in the 2019 election . She received 1.5 percent of the vote here.

Muinjangue gained international fame through her chairmanship of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation on the genocide of the Herero and Nama in the times of German South West Africa . Among other things, she spoke as the head of the delegation in Germany in 2016 and was involved in the repatriation of skulls from the colonial era in 2018 .

Muinjangue is a visiting lecturer at the University of Namibia (UNAM). She holds a bachelor's and master's degree in social work from UNAM and the University of Pretoria .

Publications

• EU Muinjangue: History of social work in Namibia , University of Namibia, Windhoek 2015.

Web links

• Interview with Esther Utji Muinjangue. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation , May 9, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nudo elects female president. The Namibian, March 4, 2019.
2. ^ Transnational Non-governmental Congress on the Ovaherero and Nama Genocide. Ovaherero Genocide Foundation, 14.-16. October 2016.
3. ↑ Germany returns to Namibia skulls from colonial-era massacre, the 20th century's first genocide. Japan Times, August 30, 2018.
4. ↑ Ms. E. Muinjangue. UNAM. Retrieved October 21, 2019.