Moses Katjiuongua’s mother dies

VETERAN politician and former National Assembly member Moses Katjiuongua has announced the death of his mother at the age of 84.

Katjiuongua’s mother, Adelheid Vanduu Kavari, born Muundjua, died in Windhoek Central Hospital on Thursday last week, Katjiuongua said yesterday.She was 84 years old, and had been in hospital for about three weeks before she died, he said.Katjiuongua is his mother’s first-born child.She is being survived by ten children.She lived at Post 13 at Otjijarua in the Epukiro area north of Gobabis.That is also where she will be buried on Saturday, Katjiuongua said.She will be laid to rest with her late husband, Theophilus Kavari, Katjiuongua said.Katjiuongua’s father, Theophilus Rukoro Katjikuru Katjiuongua, died in September 1995.Katjiuongua was a member of Namibia’s National Assembly from 1990 to 2000. He is a former leader of Namibia’s oldest political party, Swanu, and was a Cabinet Minister in the controversial Transitional Government of National Unity in the latter half of the 1980s.

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