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Maximalliant Tjekupe Katjimune (born 11 February 1998) is a Namibian politician who serves as Member of Parliament from the
Popular Democratic Movement The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), formerly the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), is an amalgamation of political parties in Namibia, registered as one singular party for representation purposes. In coalition with the United Democratic ...
.


Education

Katjimune attended Namibia Primary School (NEPS) in
Katutura Katutura (Otjiherero for ''The place where people do not want to live'') is a township of Windhoek, Khomas Region, Namibia. Katutura was created in 1961 following the forced removal of Windhoek's black population from the Old Location, which af ...
, Windhoek from 2005 to 2011. He then attended Jan Mohr Secondary School from 2012 to 2016, before enrolling at the
University of Namibia The University of Namibia (UNAM) is a multi-campus public research university in Namibia, as well as the largest university in the country. It was established by an act of Parliament on 31 August 1992. Background UNAM comprises the follow ...
where he did a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies and Sociology.


Career

Katjimune joined student politics at Jan Mohr Secondary School when he was recruited into the
Namibia National Students Organisation The Namibia National Students Organisation (NANSO) is a national student organisation in Namibia. It was founded on 2 June 1984 in Döbra, about north of the capital Windhoek. Student Representation NANSO has been representing Namibian stude ...
(NANSO). In 2015, he set up the first ever NANSO branch at Jan Mohr Secondary School, at a time when the school was dominated by a history of apartheid and anti-activism. He was elected the Branch Chairperson in 2015. In 2016, he was elected to the NANSO Khomas Regional Executive Committee (KREC) as the Regional Secretary for Political and Internal Affairs. During his years at the University of Namibia, he served as the Faculty Representative for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Spokesperson of the SRC as well as the SRC Speaker of Parliament. He joined mainstream politics in 2018 when he joined the PDMYL and was subsequently appointed as the National Spokesperson of the PDMYL. In September of 2019, he was nominated as part of Hon. McHenry Venaani's 5 candidates to form part of the PDM's list to the National Assembly at the age of 21, thus becoming one of the youngest candidates ever to be nominated to a party list for the National Assembly. He was initially placed number 22 on the PDM list, and the PDM only attained 16 seats hence he was initially not sworn in as a member of the National Assembly on 20 March 2020. He then worked as a Researcher and Speechwriter for the PDM Parliamentary Caucus from June 2020 to May 2022, whereafter he was sworn in as a Member of the National Assembly on 6 June 2022 at the age of 24 following a Supreme Court judgment regarding the PDM list.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Katjimune, Maximalliant Living people 1998 births Politicians from Windhoek Members of the National Assembly (Namibia) Popular Democratic Movement politicians