Martha ImalwaOlivia-Martha Imalwa grew up in northern Namibia during the colonial era where prospects of empowerment opportunities for "black" women were not at all big. She went into exile to Angola in 1982 where she came into contact with the law profession for the first time. After 1982 SWAPO sent her to Lusaka in Zambia to study at the United Nations Institute for Namibia (UNIN). She graduated from UNIN in 1985, after passing with distinction, and continued her studies at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom where she obtained her LLB degree with honours in 1988. She returned from exile in 1989, and was soon after independence in March 1990 appointed as the co-ordinator for the Legal Assistance Centre team at Ongwediva, or the Human Rights Centre as it was still known in 1990. In 1992 she became State Prosecutor at Oshakati. During 1996 she was appointed by the former Prosecutor General, Advocate Hans Heyman, as the Control Prosecutor for Opuwo, Outapi, Oshakati, Ondangwa, Eenhana, Rundu and Katima Mulilo. In 1998 Imalwa became a State Advocate in the High Court of Namibia, only to be transferred back to Oshakati as a Control Prosecutor one year later. In 2000 she was appointed as Deputy Prosecutor-General of Namibia. In January 2004 she became the Prosecutor-General of Namibia, succeeding Advocate Joe Walter who acted in this position during 2003 and Advocate Hans Heyman who retired as Prosecutor-General in 2002.
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