Namibian Expatriates in Angola - Tsudao Gurirab, Jhonny Haikella Hakaye, Kalla Gertze, Teopolina Mushelenga, Agnes Limbo, Levis Swartbooi (Paperback)

Chapters: Tsudao Gurirab, Jhonny Haikella Hakaye, Kalla Gertze, Teopolina Mushelenga, Agnes Limbo, Levis Swartbooi, Abraham Shatimuene. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tsudao Immanuel Gurirab (born 2 January, 1961 in Usakos, Erongo Region) is a Namibian politician. A member of Congress of Democrats (CoD), Gurirab was formerly a member of the ruling South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) until Gurirab, Ben Ulenga, Ignatius Shixwameni and others left SWAPO to form CoD in 1999. He is also a member of the Pan-African Parliament and the only non-SWAPO member selected from Namibia. In 2007, Gurirab was elected chairperson of the party. Gurirab went into exile with SWAPO and earned a diploma from the United Nations Institute for Namibia in Lusaka, Zambia in 1982, B.A. in economics from the University of Sussex in 1984 and M.A. in Development Studies from the University of Manchester in 1986. In 2002, Gurirab earned a M.A. in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Namibia/Institute of Social Sciences in The Hague, Netherlands. Gurirab joined the SWAPO Department of Economic Affairs as a researcher in Luanda, Angola from 1987-98. Following the end of the Namibian War of Independence, Gurirab worked on the editorial board of the SWAPO newspaper Namibia Today as well as on the party's election team in 1989. From independence in 1990 until 1995, the Usakos native was the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry when Ben Amathila was Minister. He left politics in 1995 and worked as a private economist. Gurirab joined some prominent SWAPO figures and joined CoD in 1999. In the 1999 election, the new party earned 7 out of 72 seats, tying it with the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) for second most seats in the Na...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4067333