Rudolph Kamburona is a
Namibian politician. A member of the
Rally for Democracy and Progress, Kamburona was 9th on the party's
electoral list
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but was not elected to the
National Assembly of Namibia in the
2009 general election. Kamburona served in the
1st and
2nd National Assemblies (1991-2000) as a member of the
Democratic Turnhalle Alliance. He was one of the longest-serving members of DTA prior to his resignation in January 2008. He sought to focus on his farming activities, saying, "I cannot be a weekend farmer only and also handle political activities so I had to come to a decision,". He officially announced his affiliation with RDP at a rally in
Tsumeb in August 2008. Kamburona is
Herero
Herero may refer to:
* Herero people, a people belonging to the Bantu group, with about 240,000 members alive today
* Herero language, a language of the Bantu family (Niger-Congo group)
* Herero and Namaqua Genocide
* Herero chat, a species of b ...
.
Alleged assassination plot
In February 2010 at a campaign rally in
Okahandja, Kamburona announced that a plot to assassinate opposition leaders existed. Opposition leaders were allegedly targeted because of the contested 2009 general election, though they had not filed a formal police complaint prior to the announcement. The assassination plot was allegedly to place poisonous powder on the clothes and car door handles of opposition leaders.
Police await report on 'assassination plot'
New Era, 17 February 2010
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Herero people
Popular Democratic Movement politicians
Members of the National Assembly (Namibia)
Rally for Democracy and Progress (Namibia) politicians
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