Alexia Turimei Manombe-Ncube (born 7 December 1964) is a

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n politician. She is deputy minister of Disability Affairs since March 2015. Manombe-Ncube was born Alexia Muningirua on 7 December 1964 in

Kalkfeld Kalkfeld is a settlement in the Otjozondjupa Region of Namibia. It is situated halfway between Omaruru, Namibia, Omaruru and Otjiwarongo on the national road C33 and belongs to the Omatako Constituency, Omatako electoral constituency. The place ...

, South West Africa (today the Otjozondjupa region of Namibia). She obtained a diploma in community-based social development from Coady International Institute in

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and between 1990 and 2005 was employed at the Namibian Ministry of Health and Social Services. Manombe-Ncube became been a non-voting

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 ...

member of

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in 2005 when president

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chose her as one of his six appointees. At that time, she was the first disabled Namibian parliamentarian. In March 2015 she was appointed deputy minister of Disability Affairs, a portfolio under the Minister of Presidential Affairs. Manombe-Ncube obtained a B.A. in psychology from the

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in 2020. She was married to Zimbabwean disability rights activist Jabulani Manombe-Ncube who committed suicide in 2012. She resides in

Windhoek Windhoek (, , ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 20 ...

Khomasdal suburb.

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