Kandy Nehova (born 26 September 1946) is a
Namibia
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 ...
n politician. A member of the
Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), Nehova was a member of the
National Assembly of Namibia
The National Assembly is the lower chamber of Namibia's bicameral Parliament. Its laws must be approved by the National Council, the upper house. Since 2014, it has a total of 104 members. 96 members are directly elected through a system of close ...
following the
2009 election. In September 2010, Nehova and eight other opposition politicians were sworn-in as members of the National Assembly following a six-month boycott due to electoral irregularities in the 2009 election. The electoral irregularities were ruled by a court of law to be unfounded.
Career
Formerly a leading 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 ...
, Nehova was the first
Chairperson of the National Council of Namibia from 1993 to 2004. He represented
Ongwediva
Ongwediva is a town in the Oshana Region in the north of Namibia. It is the district capital of the Ongwediva electoral constituency. it had 27,000 inhabitants and covered 4,102 hectares of land. Ongwediva has seven churches, two private sch ...
. He resigned in November 2007 as a member of SWAPO, the same month as RDP founder
Hidipo Hamutenya
Hidipo Livius Hamutenya (17 June 1939 – 6 October 2016) was a Namibian politician. A long time leading member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Hamutenya was a member of the Cabinet of Namibia from independence in 1990 to ...
.
RDP Leaders Dismissed as Failures
New Era via All Africa, 20 November 2007
References
1946 births
Living people
People from Oshana Region
Members of the National Assembly (Namibia)
Chairpersons of the National Council (Namibia)
Rally for Democracy and Progress (Namibia) politicians
SWAPO politicians
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