Click here for the most up-to-date version of the dashboard. Namibia’s President, Hage Geingob has appointed a 23-year-old woman, Emma Theofilus as Deputy Information and Technology Minister. privacy policy and European users agree to data transfer policy. “Maybe it becomes a little more important than for experienced, older people.”. Like Theofelus, she didn’t rise through party political ranks but rather was appointed for the skills she could bring to the portfolio. Ntsube, aged 20 at the time, was joined by at least four former student activists who made names for themselves a couple of years earlier in the #FeesMustFall protest movement. Subscribe to For example, MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is 42, while in South Africa Julius Malema turns 39 this year. For example, last year Ronald Lamola, 35, and a lawyer by training, was appointed justice minister.
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“I am excited. Ndabeni-Abrahams, also from the ANC Youth League, was 33 when she became deputy minister in 2011. A former youth activist Ester Simon said “It is not just inclusivity but the president is showing and demonstrating practical example and has trust in us as young people.”. The law graduate who can be considered Africa’s youngest member of parliament was part of President Hage Geingob’s list of eight non-voting members announced on Sunday and sworn in Monday, March 22. This does put a lot of pressure on her as a representative of young people, she says. “I have literally been learning on the job so far,” she says. Across the border in Zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe clung to power until the age of 93, former Olympian swimmer Kirsty Coventry, then 35, was appointed minister of youth, sport, arts and recreation in 2018 by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Speaking to The Namibian she said “I do not think I am special, but I do not think I am inexperienced, and I do not think being young or female has anything to do with my appointment. Support great journalism today.
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“I have literally been learning on the job so far,” she says. Thomas Sankara, for example, was 33 when he became president of Burkina Faso in 1983, and Abiy Ahmed was appointed Ethiopian prime minister last year at the age of 41. Her appointment comes at a time when the youth in Namibia had been calling for the introduction of younger people into the country’s leadership structure which is largely made up of retiring old folks. This makes her the youngest Minister and Member of Parliament in the Southern African country. Eyewitness? In neighbouring Botswana, trade economist and consultant Bogolo Kenewendo was only 29 when she was appointed minister of investment, trade and industry. Has our COVID fight crippled our efforts to fight HIV and TB? COVID-19 has increased hunger in SA.
The former youth activist and justice ministry legal officer was having a quiet Saturday at home when the surprise call came from State House. It is a supporting role, just like any law has supporting regulations to allow it to function.”. So what works best to improve access to food? “They would look me up and down and the ambassadors would say: ‘You look hopelessly too young to be an ambassador.’ And I had a standard refrain to say: ‘Ja, they tried the old men, and that didn’t work out so well, and now they’re giving the younger women a try.’”. Theofilus who is a law graduate said she got to know about her appointment through a “surprisingly rare” phone call from the State House. “There has not been a pattern of a systematic attempt for generational change in the region.”. The 2018 Gates Foundation report, which focused on youth population growth, said investment in the booming youth population could be good for African economies because if young people are healthy, educated and productive, they could “do the kind of innovative work that stimulates rapid growth”. One of Africa’s youngest cabinet members to date is experiencing a baptism of fire. Instead of advancing youth interests, the appointment of young people as ministers in Zimbabwe “has been done over the years expediently and selectively”, says Harare-based Ibbo Mandaza, director of the Sapes Trust thinktank. The Cabinet of Namibia is an appointed body that was established by the Chapter 6 (Articles 35-42) of the Constitution of Namibia.It is mandated to include the following positions: the President of Namibia, the Prime Minister of Namibia and any positions that the President so appoints.. All cabinet members also sit in the National Assembly. Some heads of state have made young appointments to compete favourably with the opposition.
"BI" newsletter, By clicking again you agree to our It is not an insignificant role,” she added. Youth per se is not necessarily an important quality for leadership. They went their separate ways after Malema was expelled and formed his own party. “I have been put in a position, regardless of what limitations I might have, to show up and do the best that I can do,” says Theofelus, who has had to learn very quickly how to navigate governance and political issues.
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