Dawid Boois (born 13 January 1952) is a

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n politician and educator. 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 ...

, Boois was the Governor of the southern

ǁKaras Region The ǁKaras Region (pronounced , with a lateral click) is the southernmost and least densely populated of the 14 regions of Namibia; its capital is Keetmanshoop. The name assigned to the region reflects the prominence of the Karas mountain rang ...

and a member of the

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from 2000 to 2005.Dawid Boois
Namibia Institute for Democracy In the 2010 regional elections, Boois won the

Berseba Constituency Berseba is a constituency in the ǁKaras Region of Namibia. The main settlement is Berseba. the constituency had 6,659 registered voters. Berseba constituency contains the Brukkaros crater and the settlements of Snyfontein, Helmeringhausen, Ts ...

with 1,225 votes. He remained Berseba councillor also after the 2015 regional elections which he won with 1,774 votes. As an educator, Boois was a teacher at the Ecumenical Community Secondary School in

Berseba Berseba (Khoekhoe language, Nama: ǃAutsawises) is a village in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia and the district capital of the Berseba Constituency, Berseba electoral constituency. It is situated north-west of Keetmanshoop near the Bru ...

. Boois was involved in a controversy regarding the different factions of the

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ship of the ǀHaiǀKhaua ( Berseba Orlam) subtribe of the

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. He supported a group contesting the legitimacy of the reunification of the Goliath and Isaak rival clans and tried to extend the 50-year-long split of the Berseba

Orlam The Oorlam or Orlam people (also known as Orlaam, Oorlammers, Oerlams, or Orlamse Hottentots) are a subtribe of the Nama people, largely assimilated after their migration from the Cape Colony (today, part of South Africa) to Namaqualand and Dam ...

. Eventually Boois supported the unity of the tribe by reconciling with fellow former ǁKaras governor

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early in 2011.Boois and Goliath bury the hatchet
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'', 25 February 2011

Business interests

According to transparency documents released in 2003 while Boois was a member of the National Assembly, the Berseba-native is a director of Kaiseb Fishing. He also owns 8% of the shares in the company. He also owns over 15,000 shares in Southern Namibia Hake Fishing Industries alongside fellow SWAPO politician

Willem Konjore Reverend Willem Konjore (30 July 1945—10 June 2021) was a Namibian politician. He was a member and a deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia, and served in cabinet from 2005 to 2010. Early life and education Konjore was born on 3 ...

. He also owns a restaurant and hotel in ǁKaras Region.

References

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