Monday, April 20, 2015

Contact Directory

Office Of The President

Bag 13339Windhoek

President
H.E. Dr. Hage G. Geingob
Tel: +264 61 2707427
Fax: +264 61 221770

Ministry Of Presidential Affairs

Bag 13338Windhoek

Minister
Hon. Martin Andjaba
Tel: +264 61 2707829
Fax: +264 61 245989

Permanent Secretary
Mr. Samuel  H. /Goagoseb
Tel: +264 61 2707787
Fax: +264 61 221780

Personal Assistant to the Minister
 Liandro Mensah Mensah
Tel: +264 61 2707828
Fax: +264 61 245989

Senior Private Secretary
 Emma Molelekeng
Tel: +264 61 2707828
Fax: +264 61 245989

Presidential Advisors


Special Advisor: Private sector interface constitutional affairs
 Ingenesia Kameeja Zaamwani-Kamwi
Tel: +264 61 2707795

Special Advisor: Economic affairs
Dr. John Steytler
Tel: +264 61 2707815

Special Advisor: Press Secretary
Mr Alfredo Hengari
Tel: +264 61 2707812

Special Advisor: Policy Implementation and Monitoring
Ms Penny Akwenye
Tel: +264 61 2707808

Special Advisor: Youth Matters & Enterprise Development
Ms Daisry Mathias
Tel: +264 61 2707811

Community Co-ordination and Liaison
Mr Jeff Mbako
Tel: +264 61 2707918

President’s Private Office


Executive Director
Mr. Etienne Maritz
Tel: +264 61 2707430
Fax: +264 61 256413

Personal Assistant to the President
 Sharonice Busch
Tel: +264 61 2707696
Fax: +264 61 2707439

Senior Special Assistant
Mr. Gondi Diaz
Tel: +264 61 2707794

Senior Special Assistant
Ms. Rachel Gowases-Chibas
Tel: +264 61 2707425

Deputy Chief of Protocol State House
Mr Tuhafeni Modesto
Tel: +264 61 2707419

Special Assitant
Ms. Tuli Garoes
Tel: +264 61 2707810

Special Assitant
Mr. Shikongo Mavara
Tel: +264 61 2707796

Department Executive Policy Services, Research And Media Liaison


Deputy Permanent Secretary
Mr. Ben Nangombe
Tel: +264 61 2707822
Fax: +264 61 226479

Department State House And Administration


Deputy Permanent Secretary
Mr Erastus M Haitengela
Tel: +264 61 2707785
Fax: +264 61 221770

Director State House and General Services
Ms. Alma N. Nambundunga
Tel: +264 61 2707792
Fax: +264 61 2707519

Division General Services


Deputy Director:
Ms. Clarina Barker
Tel: +264 61 2707111
Fax: +264 61 2707519

Division: Information Technology


Deputy Director
Mr Sakaria Amutenya
Tel: +264 61 2707590
Fax: +264 61 221770

Division: Ceremonial Services And Motorcade


Deputy Director:
Mr. Erickson Kamati
Tel: +264 61 2707111
Fax: +264 61 221770

Division Household Services


Deputy Director
Ms Hilde Queen Petrus-Sakala
Tel: +264 61 2707434
Fax: +264 61 221770

Department Cabinet Secretariat

Division Record Control And Management


Deputy Director
Mr. Willbard Mbambus
Tel: +264 61 2707802
Fax: +264 61 2707473

Division Speech Writing, Research And Media Liaison


Director
Mr. Jackson Wandjiva
Tel: +264 61 2707819
Fax: +264 61 226479

Speech Writing and Research Deputy Director
Ms Maria Petrus
Tel: +264 61 2707461
Fax: +264 61 226479

Speech Writing and Research Deputy Director
Mr. Benestus Marenga
Tel: +264 61 2707405
Fax: +264 61 226479

Department Executive Policy Service, Research And Media Liaison


Media Liaison
Ms Peggy Netha Malangu
Tel: +264 61 2707820
Fax: +264 61 226479

Chief Public Relations Officer
Mr Dennis Shikwambi
Tel: +264 61 2797431
Fax: +264 61 226479

Liaison Officer
Ms Yvonne Amukwaya
Tel: +264 61 2707544
Fax: +264 61 226479

President Dr. Hage Geingob (2015 - )

Hage Gottfried Geingob (born 3 August 1941) is the third and the current President of Namibia, in office since 21 March 2015. Geingob was the first Prime Minister of Namibia from 21 March 1990 until 28 August 2002, he served as Prime Minister again from 4 December 2012 to 21 March 2015.

Since 2007, he has been Vice-President of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Namibia's ruling party, and he was Minister of Trade and Industry from 2008 to 2012.

As the Presidency in Namibia is restricted to two terms, President Hifikepunye Pohamba was due to step down in 2015, and Geingob, as SWAPO Vice-President, took his place as SWAPO's presidential candidate. In November 2014, Geingob was elected as President of Namibia by an overwhelming margin.

President Sam Nujoma (1990 - 2005)

Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma (Shafiishuna is Nujoma's battle name and means "lightening") was born on 12.05.1929 at Okahao. He visited the Finnish Primary School, Okahao, 1937-48. Thereafter he visited the Night School, St. Barnabas, "Old Location", Windhoek, 1949-1954. Nujoma has obtained numerous Honourary Doctorates.

He worked at the railways 1949-1957, then at the Windhoek Municipality. He entered active politics as a member of the Mandume Movement 1954. Nujoma was a founder member of both, SWANU and OPO, 1959. With Jacob Kuhangua he led the first  Windhoek Branch of OPO, becoming OPO President the same year. He was elected to the SWANU Executive September 1959 when SWANU co-opted members onto the party executive. Having been fired from the South African Railways because of his trade union and political activities in 1957, Nujoma became one of the leading opponents of the South African authorities' decision to relocate all "natives" from Windhoek's "Old Location" to a new location far outside Windhoek, present-day Katutura. The organised resistance led in December 1959 to the "Old Location Uprising" with many people killed by the South African Police. Nujoma was arrested in December 1959 after the uprising.

Nujoma went into exile with the assistance of Hosea Kutako in February/March 1960. He went first to Botswana, where he was assisted by Ovambanderu Chief Munjuku Nguvauva II. From there he went into Tanzania via Botswana and Northern Rhodesia (present-day Zambia) under the false name of David Shipanga. In Ndola (Northern Rhodesia) he met with Zambian UNIP leaders. From Ndola he went into Katanga to meet with Moise Tshombe and reached eventually Mbeya in Tanzania via Salisbury (present-day Harare). From Mbeya he sent a telegram to the United Nations requesting a hearing at the Fourth Committee of the UN. Tanzanian (British) post office authorities alerted the colonial police in Tanganyika and a manhunt was started while Nujoma was treated for Malaria in the Mbeya hospital with the aid of TANU's Ali Chandara. With the assistance of Julius Nyerere (then Member of the Legislative Council of Tanganyika), he received a passport. In April 1960 he travelled to Khartoum, meeting Fanuel Kozonguizi and Michael Scott. From there Nujoma travelled to Liberia which was in the process of taking the Namibia Case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Via Ghana and with the help of Kwame Nkruhma, he made to the USA with Kozonguizi and appeared before the UN Committee for SWA in June 1960.

In New York from April to November 1960, he met up with Mburumba Kerina and on 19.04.1960 the OPO was renamed and reconstituted as SWA People's Organisation (SWAPO) with himself as President. He returned to Tanzania and set up the SWAPO provisional headquarters at Dar-Es-Salaam 1961, where in 1963 his position as President of SWAPO was ratified. From Dar-Es-Salaam he spent much time travelling around the world in order to gain recognition for the liberation and independence of Namibia. Nujoma gained a major success in 1964 when SWAPO was recognised as a receiver of OAU aid - said to have been the result of his friendship with Tanzanian Foreign Minister and Chairman of the OAU Liberation Committee, Oscar Kambona.

After the 1966 ICJ judgement, Nujoma flew by charter back to Windhoek on 20.03.1966 with Lukas Pohamba to test the legalities but they were arrested by the South African authorities at arrival and deported the following day. Officially SWAPO committed to the armed struggle in 1966 after the International Court of Justice went against the UN and the first SWAPO cadres were trained in Egypt. "We started the armed struggle with only two sub-machine guns and two pistols. I got them from Algeria, plus some rounds of ammunition. I had to travel with the guns from Algeria to Cairo and then in transit through to Tanzania. The late Peter Nanyemba was our representative in Tanzania at the time, and I asked him to arrange a press conference at the airport when I arrived there. So I arrived in Tanzania with four bags of guns. So I find an immigration officer there ... Four times he looked me up and down. And then he asked me, what do you have in those bags? And I told him 'I have used clothing for refugees'. And then he looked at me again, and he laughed and let me pass. I was almost dead with relief". With Nanyemba they brought the arms through Zambia at night in UNIP Landrovers. From there they were taken by SWAPO soldiers across the Zambezi River to Katima Mulilo to Omugulu-gOmbashe where SWAPO's armed struggle started on 26.08.1966.

In 1969 Nujoma was reconfirmed as SWAPO President at the Tanga Consultative Congress and has retained the position ever since. He gained official recognition for SWAPO at the United Nations and official member status of the Non-Alignment Movement in 1979. Nujoma led negotiations with the UN, the Western Five, South Africa and the Frontline States in successive rounds of international negotiations for an acceptable settlement to the Namibia dispute since the middle of the 1970s and has attended numerous sessions of the UN, the OAU and other international forums. He has met with various private party-political delegations from Namibia on different occasions over the years and has repeatedly reassured Namibian "whites" that the party's policy is based on the policy of "national reconciliation". Nujoma was awarded with the Lenin Peace Price in 1968 and the November Medal Price 1978.

Nujoma returned to Namibia on 14.09.1989 with the implementation of the UN SC Resolution 435. He is the President of the Republic of Namibia since 21 March 1990. He served for three terms of five years each.

During the SWAPO Central Committee Meeting from 02.04.2004 to 03.04.2004 in Windhoek, Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba (proposed by Sam Nujoma), Nahas Angula (proposed by Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo, seconded by Libertine Amathila) and Hidipo Hamutenya (proposed by Mosé Penaani Tjitendero, seconded by Hartmut Ruppel) were elected as the three SWAPO presidential candidates for the Presidential Election 2004 in order to succeed the President of the Republic of Namibia, Sam Nujoma.The sole SWAPO presidential candidate will be elected during an Extraordinary SWAPO Congress at the end of May 2004.

Sam Nujoma's willingness not to stand for a fourth term as President of the Republic of Namibia was endorsed by both, the SWAPO Politburo and the SWAPO Central Committee.