Moses Katjiuongua

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

Life

Katjiuongua attended Primary School in Aminuis and a college in Bechuanaland, in present-day Botswana. He left his home when he was 13 years old. From 1956 to 1959 he attended the Swedish Confederation of Labour College. Katjiuongua remained then for a time in various African countries and worked among others for the SWANU office in Cairo. He studied from 1961 to 1962 as a fellow of SWANU journalism in Magdeburg in East Germany and traveled to other states of the former Eastern Bloc. During a trip to China Katjiuongua met, among others, the Chinese government and party leader Mao Zedong.

He then lived from the mid-1960s in exile in Sweden where he continued his education and political work for the SWANU. From 1976 he worked at The Namibian Review, a publication issued in Spånga Exilnamibiern of different political groups. Katjiuongua continued his studies from 1978 to 1980 at the University of Stockholm, where he with a Bachelor (BA ) in Political Science and Master ( MA) in the subject graduated International Relations, economics and philosophy. He later studied yet in Ottawa, Canada, where he graduated with a Master of Science in public administration.

Early 1980 Katjiuongua returned to Namibia back in 1981 and 1982 and was working as deputy head of the public relations department of the company Rössing Uranium.

Katjiuongua was Herero and already his father was a personal advisor from Chef Hosea Kutako, one of the leaders of the early resistance movement and co-founder of SWANU. In 1982 Katjiuongua was elected chairman SWANU. In 1985 he was appointed by the meeting in Windhoek multiparty conference for Ministers of Health (Minister of Manpower, Health and Welfare ) in the internationally unrecognized Namibian transitional government before the country's independence. He kept the minister until 1989, however, his reputation suffered from this co-operation with the South African apartheid regime.

He established for the election of the Constituent Assembly in 1989, the National Patriotic Front ( NPF ) and was able to win a seat, which he kept even after the conversion of the Assembly for the first Namibian Parliament. It was after independence as a respected opposition politicians in the political dominated by SWAPO of Namibia. Last Katjiuongua supported the opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP ).

Katjiuongua was married and the father of four children.