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In March 2023, President Hage
Geingob named Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as the sole candidate for the ruling Swapo party in next year's elections. In addition,Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is a Swapo veteran who is favourite to become Namibia’s first female president after elections are held in November.
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from 1990 to 1996 and first gained ministerial status in 1996 as director-general of Women's
Affairs in the Office of the President, where she served until 2000. In 2000 she was promoted to minister and given the
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from 1975 to 1976. She graduated with a diploma in the work and practice of the communist youth movement. In 1987 she obtained a post-graduate diploma in public administration and management from the
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Ndemupelila
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was born on 29 October 1952 to Justina Nekoto Shaduka-Nandi and Petrus Nandi at Onamutai in northern Namibia. Ndaitwah was educated at St. Mary's Mission in
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vice president, and has retained her position and is set to become the party's first female presidential candidate in
November 2024. She has also served as Namibia's
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from 1976 until 1978 and the chief representative in Zambia from 1978 to 1980. From 1980 until 1986, she was the SWAPO chief representative in East Africa, based at
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in March 2015, while serving in parallel as
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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was awarded the 'thought leadership' at the
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from 1976 to 1986 and the
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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwa's interests lie in children's community work and reading.
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at the party's 6th
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Nandi-Ndaitwah went into exile in 1974 and joined SWAPO members in
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since
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from 1974 to 1975 and attended a course at the Lenin Higher
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Nandi-Ndaitwah became the SWAPO deputy representative in
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Shipanga, Selma; Immanuel, Shinovene (5 December 2012).
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Gender equality and social welfare ministers of Namibia
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Minister of International Relations and Cooperation
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Minister of International Relations and Cooperation
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Minister of International Relations and Cooperation
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