Agnes Basilia Tjongarero (born 17 May 1946) is a

Namibian Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

politician. Tjongarero was born on 17 May 1946 in Walvis Bay,

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(today Namibia). Between 1968 and 1975 she trained as nurse, midwife, nursing manager and nursing educator, and then worked as a lecturer at a nursing college until 1992. Tjongarero also was active in various sport administration roles. She was president of the All Namibia Netball Association between 1993 and 1997 and vice chairperson of the

Namibia Sports Commission The Namibian Sports Commission (NSC) is the umbrella and regulatory organisation of all sport codes, based in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. It is a governmental institution advising, and taking orders from, the Minister of Youth and Sport. I ...

between 2006 and 2009. She is the president of the Namibia National Olympic Committee since 1997. Tjongarero is a member of

SWAPO The South West Africa People's Organisation (, SWAPO; af, Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; german: Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former ind ...

. She was appointed to the

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in 2010 by president

Hifikepunye Pohamba Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba (born 18 August 1936) is a Namibian politician who served as the second president of Namibia from 21 March 2005 to 21 March 2015. He won the 2004 presidential election overwhelmingly as the candidate of SWAPO, and was ...

. In 2015 she was appointed deputy Minister of Sport, Youth and National Service. In March 2020, she was promoted to minister.

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