Netumbo Ndaitwa

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Netumbo Ndaitwa

Netumbo Nandi Ndaitwa was born on 29.10.1952 at Onamutai. She was educated at St. Mary's Mission in Odibo. She received a Post Graduate Diploma (Public Administration and Management) at the Gellesgow College of Technology in the United Kingdom. Furthermore she obtained a Post Graduate Diploma (International Relations) and a M.A. (Dipl. Studies) degree from the Keele University in the United Kingdom.

She joined SWAPO in 1966. She was a Member of the SWAPO Youth League: Northern Namibia from 1970 until 1974. She went into exile and joined SWAPO members in Zambia in 1974. She worked at the SWAPO Head Quarters in Lusaka/Zambia from 1974 to 1975.

Netumbo Ndaitwa attended a course at the High Komsomol School in the USSR from 1975 to 1976.Honourable NETUMBO NDAITWA became the SWAPO Deputy Representative in Zambia 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 Dar-Es-Salaam.

She was a Member of the SWAPO Central Committee from 1976 to 1986. She became President of the Namibian National Women's Organisation (NANAWO) from 1991 until 1994. She is a Member of the National Assembly 1990-.

Netumbo Ndaitwa was Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs 1990-96, Director General for Women Affairs in the Office of the President from 1996-2000 and Minister for Women Affairs since then.

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