BIOGRAPHIES OF NAMIBIAN
PERSONALITIES
in alphabetical order
KLAUS DIERKS
Copyright © 2003-2004 Dr. Klaus Dierks
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001550
Ickler
* in Germany
+ .1900
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Ickler was a missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in Ovamboland. He died in
1900.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary
Namibia National Archives Database
002284
Iilonga yaNyango, Ovamboland (Uukwambi) King
*
+ ca. 1800
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The tenth Uukwambi King on record was King Iilonga yaNyango (around
1800). He followed King Nuukata waTshiinga (1780-1800). His successor was the eleventh
Uukwambi King Tshikesho (before 1860).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002292
Iipumbu, Herman, Ovamboland (Uukwambi) King
*
+
---
The nineteenth Uukwambi King since 1991 is Herman Iipumbu. He
indirectly followed the famous Uukwambi King Iipumbu ya Tshilongo (1907-1932)
who was deposed by the South Africans in 1932.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002288
Iipumbu ya Nangaku, Ovamboland (Uukwambi) King
*
+ .1863
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The fourteenth Uukwambi King was King Iipumbu ya Nangaku
(1862-1863). He followed King Nuyoma wIipumbu (1860-1862). Iipumbu founded his capital at
Okashangu. The 15th King Tshikesho tshEelu (1863) followed King Iipumbu ya Nangaku after
his death in 1863, but died in the same year.
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
000919
Iipumbu ya Tshilongo, Ovamboland (Uukwambi)
King
* .1873 at Onatshiku
+ 09.09.1959 at Oshikuku
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Iipumbu ya Tshilongo was born in 1873 at Onatshiku.
He was the eighteenth King of the Uukwambi area. He ruled from 1907 until 1932. He followed King Negumbo lya Kandenge (1875-1907). Iipumbu ya Tshilongo (son of Tshilongo Uupindi), was born at Onatshiku near Elim
during the reign of King Nuyoma in 1873. He established his capital at Omapona and later
again at Onatshiku. At the end of 1922 King Iipumbu ya Tshilongo armed his people and
ordered them to guard the Onolongo and Ondangwa routes into his territory in order to
prevent "whites" from entering his country. On 13.05.1924 the Roman-Catholic
Church received permission from King Iipumbu ya Tshilongo to establish a mission station
at Oshikuku (with permission of the SWA Administration for the Uukwambi and Ombalantu
areas). In July/August 1932 King Iipumbu ya Tshilongo had resisted both the Finnish
Mission and SWA Administration since 1922. From this time onwards the records of the
mission and the administration were full of complaints about him. Complaints were lodged
about his intransigence, especially regarding migrant labour that was not as forthcoming
from Uukwambi as required by the colonial administration. But it also emerged from
archival records and oral history that King Iipumbu ya Tshilongo was a tyrant whose
autocratic and often arbitrary rule made many of his subjects flee the Uukwambi area for
neighbouring districts. His alleged and real sexual misdemeanours made him unpopular. He
even wanted to marry one of his social or allegedly biological daughters, Neekulu ya
Shivute. Neekulu fled to the Finnish Missionary at Elim. Iipumbu sent some of his soldiers
to fetch her forcefully and even threatened the missionary station at Elim (Neekulu
finally found refuge with missionary Emil Liljeblad at Oshigambo in the Ondonga area). All
these events led to his deposition. The Resident Commissioner in the north, Carl Hugo
Linsingen "Cocky" Hahn, was pivotal in deposing Iipumbu. He used military
aircraft and machine guns to demoralise the Uukwambi forces at Ombwelafuma. In the mean
time Iipumbu tried to obtain support from the Portuguese colonial authority at Ombandja in
Angola. This support was however not forthcoming. The Portuguese informed
"Cocky" Hahn of Iipumbu’s activities. During Iipumbu’s absence from
the Uukwambi area, Hahn used the opportunity to attack the Uukwambi with the assistance of
some Uukwanyama and Ondonga warriors under the command of Nehemia Shoovaleka. Iipumbu was
finally arrested at Onemedhiya and forced into exile in the Kavango after South African
war planes bombed his residence. Iipumbu stayed until 1938 in the Kavango and returned
home to Amupolo after falling sick. The Ovambo call King Iipumbu ya Tshilongo
"Ndilimani", meaning "dynamite" in the Oshivambo language.
He died at the Catholic Hospital in Oshikuku on 09.09.1959. There was no king in the
Uukwambi area until 1991. His indirect successor is Uukwambi King
Herman Iipumbu (1991-).
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Profession: Traditional leader
RAW DATA: Ndonga Anthology; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002272
Iita ya Nalitoke, Ovamboland (Uukwaluudhi) King
*
+ .1909
---
The tenth Uukwaluudhi King was King Iita ya Nalitoke. He followed
Niilenga yAmukwa in 1908. He ruled from 1908 until his death in 1909. Iita ya Nalitoke
died in 1909. His successor was the eleventh Uukwaluudhi King Mwaala gwa Nashilongo
(1909-1960).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002230
Iitana yaNekwiyu, Ovamboland (Ondonga) King
*
+ 26.09.1884 in Namibia
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Iitana yaNekwiyu was the ninth Ondonga King and
followed Kambonde ka Nankwaya in 1883. He ruled from 1883 until 1884. His capital was at Onampundu, near Onayena. Iitana yaNekwiyu died on 26.09.1884.
He was succeeded by two Ondonga kings: King Kambonde kaMpingana (1884-1909) with the
capital Onamayongo (or Okaloko according to other oral evidence)(western Ondonga) and King
Nehale (1884-1908) with the capital Onayena in the Oshitambi area (eastern Ondonga). The
Finnish Missionary Society supported King Kambonde against King Nehale with weapons and
ammunition because King Nehale was perceived to be an "enemy of the European mission
work in Africa".
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Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002257
Iiyambo yIileka, Ovamboland (Ongandjera) King
*
+ .1887
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The nineteenth Ongandjera King was King Iiyambo yIileka (1878-1887)
who followed Tsheya tsUutshona. He established his capital at Engonda. King Iiyambo
yIileka was killed by the later King Tshaanika Tsha Natshilongo (1887-1930) in 1887.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
000761
Ikela, Nicodemus
[Cabinet - nickname]
* 01.01.1926 in Namibia
+ 07.09.2002 at Windhoek
---
Nicodemus Ikela was born on 01.01.1926. He was a SWAPO activist in Windhoek-Katutura. He
died on 07.09.2002 at Windhoek.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Namibia National Archives Database
002322
Imalwa, Olivia-Martha
*
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Olivia-Martha Imalwa grew up in northern Namibia during the colonial era where prospects
of empowerment opportunities for "black" women were not at all big. She went
into exile to Angola in 1982 where she came into contact with the law profession for the
first time. After 1982 SWAPO sent her to Lusaka in Zambia to study at the United Nations
Institute for Namibia (UNIN). She graduated from UNIN in 1985, after passing with
distinction, and continued her studies at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom
where she obtained her LLB degree with honours in 1988. She returned from exile in 1989,
and was soon after independence in March 1990 appointed as the co-ordinator for the Legal
Assistance Centre team at Ongwediva, or the Human Rights Centre as it was still known in
1990. In 1992 she became State Prosecutor at Oshakati. During 1996 she was appointed by
the former Prosecutor General, Advocate Hans Heyman, as the Control Prosecutor for Opuwo,
Outapi, Oshakati, Ondangwa, Eenhana, Rundu and Katima Mulilo. In 1998 Imalwa became
a State Advocate in the High Court of Namibia, only to be transferred back to Oshakati as
a Control Prosecutor one year later. In 2000 she was appointed as Deputy
Prosecutor-General of Namibia. In January 2004 she became the Prosecutor-General of
Namibia, succeeding Advocate Joe Walter who acted in this position during 2003 and
Advocate Hans Heyman who retired as Prosecutor-General in 2002.
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Gender: f
Married to: Veikko Imalwa: four children
Field of activity: LAW
Function: Prosecutor-General
RAW DATA: Informanté Vol. 1, No. 1, 2004
000096
Imenene, Naboth
*
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Naboth Imenene was an evangelist in the ELOC Church. He was arrested November 1976. He was
tried in the Windhoek Supreme Court in July 1977, accused of aiding SWAPO guerrillas in
the Oniipa and Onyuulaye areas. He was sentenced to five years imprisonment on Robben
Island.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Namibia National Archives Database
000918
Immelman, Willem Hendrik
* 11.02.1904 at Sutherland, Cape Province, South Africa
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Willem Hendrik Immelman was born on 11.02.1904 at Sutherland in South Africa. He was
educated in Sutherland and Paarl. He was the Manager of the Electrical Division of
Windhoek Universal Motors. He was Mayor of Windhoek from 1954 until 1955.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Functions: Mayor - Windhoek - 1954-1955
Married to: Josina Immelman, née Reyneke, married 1927-
Father: Jasper J. Immelman
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;
000937
Indongo, Frans Aupa
* 15.01.1936 at Ongwediva
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Frans Aupa Indongo was born on 15.01.1936 at Ongwediva as the third of six children. He
spent his early childhood herding his father's cattle. He was educated at Amutanga and
Omega Primary Schools. He taught at Omega Primary School from 1952 until 1955. From 1956
he was a migrant labourer, employed by Walvis Bay Municipality. He started his business
ventures with investing in sewing machines and making clothing. He established a
"cuca shop" at Omusimboti in 1961 and expanded rapidly to become the owner of a
supermarket chain, then diversifying into other sectors of the economy, becoming one of,
if not the wealthiest, persons in Namibia.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Mother: Kandjengo Enkono
Father: Indongo Enkono
RAW DATA: New Era 29.04.2001;
001030
Indongo, Inatu
*
---
Inatu Indongo grew up in exile. He is a fashion designer and artist. He hold his first
solo exhibition in March 2002 at the Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre.
---
Gender: f
Field of activity: ART
Mother: Indonga
Father: Iyambo Indongo
RAW DATA: The Namibian 08.03.2002; Otweya no. 3; Sister Namibia vol.14 no. 2;
000097
Ipanguela, Joseph
*
---
Joseph Ipanguela was detained in the first half of 1968. He was held in Pretoria Central
Prison before being tried in Windhoek in July 1969, accused of conspiring to overthrow the
SWA Administration by force to replace it with a SWAPO-led government. He was sentenced to
life imprisonment on Robben Island.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: PRI 3/12 (Prison file)
000187
Irle, Emilie
[Schweissfurth, Emilie - birth name]
* 29.07.1839 at Elberfeld, Germany
+ 03.08.1888
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Emilie Irle, née Schweissfurth, was born on 29.07.1839 at Elberfeld in Germany. She was
the first wife of the Rhenish Missionary Johann Jakob Irle (married 21.01.1872). They had
five children. She died on 03.08.1888.
---
Gender: f
Married to: Johann Jakob Irle (1843-1924), married 1872-1888
RAW DATA: Vergissmeinnicht 1893:51; Faulenbach;
000182
Irle, Hedwig
[Rohden, Hedwig von - birth name]
* at Barmen, Germany
---
Hedwig Irle, née Rohden, was the second wife of the Rhenish Missionary Johann Jakob Irle.
She wrote popular brochures about mission work among the Ovaherero. Both she and her
husband were outspoken critics against the genocidal campaign against the Ovaherero
following the uprising in 1904. They had two children.
---
Gender: f
Married to: Johann Jakob Irle (1843-1924), married 1890-
RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:307;
000188
Irle, Johann Jakob (Snr.)
* 28.01.1843 at Hatzfeld, Germany
+ 07.09.1924 at Witten, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1868
Last departure from Namibia: 1903
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Johann Jakob Irle was born on 28.01.1843 at Hatzfeld in Germany. He was trained as a
carpenter. He joined the Rhenish Missionary Society after two years' military service.
Irle arrived at Okahandja with Phillipp Diehl on 18.05.1870. Firstly the two missionaries once again established a mission station at Maharero’s werf (village)
at Okahandja – the first since Kolbe had fled from Okahandja in 1850. Diehl worked at
Okahandja until 1890 when Maharero dies. On 23.09.1870 leaders (Jan Jonker Afrikaner, Maharero, Kido Witbooi of Gibeon, David Christian
Frederiks of Bethany and Jakobus Isaak of Berseba) and missionaries (Hahn, Diehl and Irle
of Okahandja, Brincker of Groß Barmen, Olpp of Gibeon, seven Finns and the trader C
Conrath) organised a peace conference at Okahandja. A peace treaty was signed in which Jan
Jonker was designated "co-regent", i.e. Maharero’s subordinate. Ten years
of peace followed after this. For a short while Irle was in 1870 in charge
of the mission station Otjikango. On 09.10.1872, he founded the mission station Otjosazu,
and there he worked among the Ovambanderu until his return to Germany in 1903. He
published extensively about the Otjiherero language and culture, including the standard
works "Die Herero : ein Beitrag zur Landes-, Volks- und Missionskunde"
(Gütersloh 1906) and "Deutsch-Herero-Wörterbuch" (Hamburg 1917). Both he and
his wife Hedwig were outspoken critics of the genocidal anti-Ovaherero campaign following
the German Ovaherero War in 1904. For instance, during 1913, when
the ill-treatment of Namibian indigenes continued, many German settlers arrogated to
themselves the right to manhandle their African labourers what they euphemistically called
"paternal chastisement". The case of the farmer Ludwig Cramer (farm
Otjisororindi at the Black Nossob) was a particularly sad example. The Rhenish Missionary
Johann Jakob Irle reported Cramer’s maltreating of his labourers to the police. The
police investigation revealed that Cramer had whipped two pregnant African women on two
successive days with such brutality that they miscarried. Two more women even died as a
result of the beatings. Cramer was charged with assault and battery in eight cases (seven
of his victims being female) and sentenced to one year and nine months in prison. A court
of appeal commuted the sentence to four months in jail plus a fine of 2 700 Marks. This
judgement was virulently attacked by Cramer’s wife, Ada Cramer, who, the court
records show, had assisted her husband in his excesses. She later published a book where
she played down and justifies the crimes committed by her husband. Irle was
married twice: Emilie Schweissfurth from Elberfeld (from 21.01.1872 to 03.08.1888), five
children, and Hedwig von Rohden from Barmen (07.07.1890), two children. He died on
07.09.1924 at Witten in Germany.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary
Married to: <1>Emilie Irle, née Schweissfurt (1839-1888), married 1872-1888
<2>Hedwig Irle, née Rohden, married 1890-
RAW DATA: P. Reiner 1992:416; Quellen 28A:105; Vergissmeinnicht 1893:51; Faulenbach;
Drechsler 1966:111, 119-120, 162, 170, 187, 307, 326, 329-330, 336, 342, 345, 347, 349,
351, 353, 355; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
000183
Irle, Jakob (Jnr.)
* 10.05.1878 at Otjosazu
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Jakob Irle (Jnr.) was born on 10.05.1878 at Otjosazu. He was the son of Rhenish Missionary
Johann Jakob Irle. After education in Germany, he went back to Namibia as a missionary
himself in 1906. He was stationed at Gobabis. He was married to Elisabeth Ohlmann in 1915.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Missionary
Married to: Elisabeth Irle, née Ohlmann, married 1915
Mother: Emilie Irle, née Schweissfurt (1839-1888)
Father: Johann Jakob Irle (1843-1924)
Collections/Papers:
1). DELK Gobabis (allegedly kept in the church vestry)
002025
Irons
*
---
Irons was a trader and carpenter. He was an elderly Englishman who once worked for Carl
Hugo Hahn at Otjimbingwe, where he lived with his wife and daughter. He was a trader at
Okahandja in 1876.
---
Gender: m
Namibia National Archives Database
000907
Isaacks, Robert Harrison
* 07.06.1976 in Namibia
+ 21.03.2002 in Namibia
---
Robert Harrison Isaacks was born on 07.06.1976. He was a community activist, actor and
playwright who worked with the Serpent Players and the Bricks Community Project. He died
at the age of 25 on 21.03.2002 through a fire accident.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: ART
Profession: Actor
Father: Simon Gaoseb
Namibia National Archives Database
000910
Isaacs, W.
* 02.09.1926 in Lithuania
First entry to Namibia: 1954
---
W. Isaacs was born on 02.09.1926 in Lithuania. He was educated in Johannesburg. He was a
businessman and came to Namibia in 1954. He was a Partner with P.J. Malherbe C.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Businessman
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;
000921
Isaacson, Maurice Arthur
* 09.11.1899 in Lithuania
First entry to Namibia: 1907
---
Maurice Arthur Isaacson was born on 09.11.1899 in Lithuania. He came to South Africa 1902.
He was educated at Cape Town. He came to Namibia 1907. In 1920 he joined the law firm
Lorentz & Bone. He was director of various companies.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: LAW BUS
Profession: Lawyer Businessman
Married to: Anne Isaacson, née Stein, married 1935
Father: Louis Isaacson
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959
001551
Isaak, Andries
*
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Accompanied Jakob Marengo during May 1906.
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Gender: m
RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:360;
000550
Isaak, Diederik, |Hai-|khauan Captain (Berseba Nama)
[|Gurob #Khaxamab - Nama name]
[Isaak, Didrik - alternative spelling]
*
---
Diederik Isaak's Nama name was |Gurob #Khaxamab. He was Deputy Captain at Berseba between
1893 and 1895, sharing leadership with Eduard Isaak until June 1894, when his rival,
Diederik Goliath, was installed as a new captain. In the leadership struggle which emerged
when Jacobus Isaak died in December 1892, the community split along a preparedness to join
Hendrik Witbooi's fight against German colonialism on the one hand, and to live with it on
the other. Diederik Goliath was apparently prepared to accommodate the Germans. Diederik
Isaak became a "Witkam", joined Hendrik Witbooi in June 1894 and left Berseba
with a substantial following.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Deputy Captain - |Hai-|khauan - 1893-1895
RAW DATA: Lau 1995:237; Budack 1972:254-255;
002126
Isaak, Diederik, |Hai-|khauan Captain (Berseba Nama)
[#Ariseb |Aiomab - Nama name]
*
+
---
After the death of Captain Edward Isaak (Jnr.) in 1959, Diederik Isaak (#Ariseb
|Aiomab)(1959-1970s) was appointed as successor. He was the ninth in the recorded
genealogy of the |Hai-|khauan captains. Subsequently, the cleavage between the Goliath and
Isaak clans again rifted into the open. Consequently the South Africans appointed a second
|Hai-|khauan Captain, David Christian Goliath (|Gurob gaib #Khaxamab)(1959-1970s). The
whole issue became intertwined both with the struggles around the implementation of the
Odendaal Plan and with emerging party policies between the pro-South African Bantustan
development and pro-independence forces. The Isaak group supported the South African
Namaland dispensation with the later (1977) Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) while the
Goliath group joined the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) in the 1970s.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Captain - |Hai-|khauan - 1959-1970s
Raw Data: Budack 1972:254-255; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002119
Isaak, Dirk, |Hai-|khauan Captain (Berseba Nama)
[|Aiob ||Êi-gaosenmab - Nama name]
* South Africa
+ ca. 1850
---
Dirk Isaak (|Aiob ||Êi-gaosenmab) was the predecessor of Captain Paul Goliath (#Hobexab)
of !Autsawises (Berseba). He died around 1850.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Captain - |Hai-|khauan - before 1850
married to: #Khaxas
Raw Data: Budack 1972:254-255; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
000551
Isaak, Edward, |Hai-|khauan Captain (Berseba Nama)
[Izaak, Eduard - alternative spelling]
[#Khaxab !Nagamâb |Aiomab]
*
---
Edward Isaak's Nama name was #Khaxab !Nagamâb |Aiomab. He was the brother of Jakobus
Isaak and Deputy Captain in Berseba until at least June 1894.
---
Gender: m
Namibia National Archives Database
002123
Isaak, Edward (Snr.), |Hai-|khauan (Berseba Nama)
[|Khurib #Khaxamab - Nama name]
*
+ at Berseba
---
Edward Isaak's (Snr.) Nama name was |Khurib #Khaxamab. He was the adversary to
|Hai-|khauan (Berseba Nama) Captain Diederik Ruben Goliath (1933-1938). When Captain
Diederik Ruben Goliath was deposed by the South Africans in 1938 and two Deputy Captains
(Edward Isaak (Snr.) and David Vries (|Gurob Tsauramab)(1938-1956)) were appointed, Edward
Isaak (Snr.) declined the offer. His son Edward Isaak (Jnr.)(||Khaub Khurimab)(1938-1959)
was appointed instead.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Budack 1972:255; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
002124
Isaak, Edward (Jnr.), |Hai-|khauan (Berseba Nama)
[||Khaub |Khurimab - Nama name]
*
+ .1959 at Berseba
---
Edward Isaak's (Jnr.) Nama name was ||Khaub |Khurimab. He was the seventh in the recorded
genealogy of the |Hai-|khauan captains. When Captain Diederik Ruben Goliath (1933-1938)
was deposed by the South Africans in 1938 and two Deputy Captains (Edward Isaak (Snr.) and
David Vries (|Gurob Tsauramab)(1938-1956)) were appointed, Edward Isaak (Snr.) declined
the offer. His son Edward Isaak (Jnr.)(||Khaub Khurimab)(1938-1959) was appointed instead.
He died 1959 in Berseba and was followed by Diederik Isaak (#Ariseb |Aiomab)(1959-1970s).
The power struggle between the Isaak and Goliath clans got momentum again. Therefore the
South Africans appointed a second captain, David Christian Goliath (|Gurob gaib
#Khaxamab)(1970s-1976).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
RAW DATA: Budack 1972:255; Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
001552
Isaak, Hendrik Samuel
* in Namibia
+ in Namibia
---
Since 1949, Pastor of the Rhenish Mission in Gibeon.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: REL
Profession: Clergy
RAW DATA: Schlosser 1958;
000528
Isaak, Jakobus, |Hai-|khauan Captain (Berseba Nama)
[#Khaxab gaib |Aiomab - Nama name]
[Izaak, Jakobus - alternative spelling]
*
+ 12.12.1892 at Berseba
---
|Hai-|khauan Captain Paul Goliath (#Hobexab) died 1869 at Berseba. He was followed by
Jakobus Isaak, Goliath's brother-in-law and was officially installed by 1873. Jakobus
Isaak was the second in the recorded genealogy of the |Hai-|khauan captains. His Nama name
was #Khaxab gaib |Aiomab. He was one of the organisers of the Okahandja Peace Conference
of September 1870. In November 1876 he was part of negotiations with William Coates
Palgrave from the Cape Colony in South Africa but later he formed a unity front, together
with Moses Gibeon of Gibeon and Hermanus van Wyk of Rehoboth, against Palgrave. In 1880 he
was part of the Nama groups who attacked the Ovaherero. In the Battle of Otjikango
(December 1880) Isaak survived and escaped to Berseba. On 13.06.1882 the Rhenish
Missionary Society (Diehl, Krönlein and Eich) negotiated a peace treaty between most of
the Nama communities, including the Berseba Nama under Jakobus Isaak. On 28.07.1885 Isaak
concluded a protection treaty with the Germans (Büttner). However, under him the
Berseba Nama were supportive of Hendrik Witbooi, many directly joined him. He died on
12.12.1892 at Berseba. His successor was Christian Goliath (ca. 1900-ca.1925).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Captain - Berseba - 1869-1892
married to: |Guros
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
001554
Isaak, Samuel
*
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Son of |Hai-|khauan Captain Jakobus Isaak of Berseba.
---
Gender: m
Namibia National Archives Database
000922
Isenberg, Hans
* 31.08.1914 in Germany
---
Hans Isenberg was born on 31.08.1914. He was educated in Germany. He came to South Africa
in 1934. He served in the SA Air Force in South Africa and Italy during World War II. He
pioneered in establishing modern meat canning in Namibia, and was director in several
companies.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Married to: Ruth Isenberg, née Loewenstein
RAW DATA: WWSA 1959;
001555
Israel, Sigmund
*
---
Employee of Adolf Lüderitz.
---
Gender: m
RAW DATA: Drechsler 1966:36, 330;
000098
Itengula, Ruben
*
---
Ruben Itengula was charged in February 1977 with participating in terrorist activities,
and remanded in custody. He was tried in Windhoek in June 1977, found guilty of
infiltrating into northern Namibia with a sub-machine gun and rocket launcher and
canvassing support for SWAPO. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, eventually reduced to
20 years on appeal, on Robben Island.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: PRI 3/24 (Prison file)
000923
Ithana, Pendukeni
* .1952 in Namibia
---
Pendukeni Ithana was born in 1952. She entered politics at school, and held posts in the
SWAPO Youth League. She participated in the student protests against the internal
elections in Ovamboland in August 1973. In 1974, she left into exile to Angola, then
Zambia at the age of 22. She was amongst the first women to fight in PLAN. She studied
Public Administration and Management at UNIN, Lusaka, and law by correspondence at the
London University. She was elected as the Secretary of the SWAPO Women's Council in 1980.
She is a Member of SWAPO Central Committee. She returned to Namibia 1989. She was a Deputy
Minister for Wildlife, Conservation and Tourism from 1990 to 1991, Minister for Youth and
Sport from 1991 to 1996, Minister for Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation from 1996
until 2002 and Attorney-General since 2002.
---
Gender: f
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Secretary - SWAPO Women's Council - 1980-
Deputy Minister - Wildlife, Conservation and Tourism - 1990-1991
Minister - Youth and Sport - 1991-1996
Minister - Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation - 1996-2002
Attorney-General - 2002-
Married to: Joseph Ithana
RAW DATA: Chronology of Namibian History, 2003 (Dierks);
000759
Ithete, Nangolo
* 22.05.1941 at Okahao
+ 23.09.2002 at Windhoek
---
Nangolo Ithete was born on 22.05.1941 at Okahao. He joined SWAPO in the early 1960s. He
went into exile in 1963 to Dar-Es-Salaam. He studied in Yugoslavia until 1975. He served
as a Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, later of Environment and Tourism, from 1990-2000. He
died on 23.09.2002 at Windhoek.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Functions: Chief Representative in Zambia - SWAPO - 1976-
Chief Representative in Nigeria - SWAPO - 1985-
Deputy Minister of Home Affairs - Namibia - 1990-1994
Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism - Namibia - 1995-2000
Married to: Nangula Ithete
Namibia National Archives Database
000099
Itika, Sakeus Philippus
*
---
Sakeus Philippus Itika was detained in mid-1966. He was charged in mid-1967 under the
Terrorism Act. He was tried with other Namibians in the Pretoria Terrorism Trial
from September 1967 until February 1968. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, which
eventually was reduced to 20 years on appeal, on Robben Island.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Collections/Papers:
1). NAN: PRI 3/26 (Prison file)
000189
Iverson
*
+ xx.05.1868 at Walvis Bay
---
Iverson was a Dane, one of the few traders sympathetic to the Orlam Afrikaners. However,
by 1866, he had become a trader and agent for Carl Hugo Hahn, whom he accompanied to
Ovamboland during the same year, and was killed at Walvis Bay by an Orlam Afrikaner
commando shortly after starting his new job (in May 1868, according to Reiner; by the end
of 1867, according to Tabler).
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: BUS
Profession: Trader
RAW DATA: P. Reiner 1992:416; Lau 1989:303; Metzkes 1962:54;
000459
Iyambo, Israel Patricka
* 01.01.1937
+ 25.07.1991
---
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Married to: D. Ndayelelwa
Namibia National Archives Database
000549
Izaak, Abel Christian
[Isaak, Abel Christian - alternative spelling]
*
---
Abel Christian Izaak was an elder brother of Hendrik Witbooi's close associate Samuel
Izaak. He was baptised and confirmed at Berseba in 1873. He was appointed as Deputy
Captain for the remaining Witboois at Gibeon upon Moses Witbooi's death, when Hendrik
Witbooi decided to remain in his northern stronghold Hoornkrans with the bulk of his
soldiers.
---
Gender: m
RAW DATA: BRMG 1874:82, 1891:142; Conradt s.d.:173;
000557
Izaak, Jakob
[Isaak, Jakob - alternative spelling]
*
---
Jakob Izaak was an official under Hendrik Witbooi. Apparently he was an elder of the
congregation at Gibeon before leaving with Hendrik Witbooi, but was officially relieved of
this office by Rhenish missionary Heinrich Friedrich Gottlieb Rust when Izaak joined
Witbooi as the first conflicts with the Rhenish Missionary Society emerged in 1884.
---
Gender: m
RAW DATA: Quellen 17:6.1.1881, 15.3.1883;
000559
Izaak, Samuel
[Isaak, Samuel - alternative spelling]
[Izaak, Hendrik - birth name]
* .1856
---
Samuel Izaak's pre-baptismal name was Hendrik. He was Deputy Captain of the Witboois at
least until 1899, and military leader, one of Hendrik Witbooi's closest associates. Samuel
Izaak was one of the four scholars especially selected and trained by Rhenish Missionary
Olpp for religious office and service in the mission. The oldest and "most
advanced", Samuel, was sent to Keetmanshoop for further studies with Rhenish
Missionary Hegner in 1874, and was recorded as being a "schoolteacher" during
the consecration of Gibeon's church in 1876. His position in the Gibeon congregation was,
however, shaken when he fathered an illegitimate child in 1881. He worked in Gibeon again
as a school teacher in 1896/97, perhaps longer. The German administration perceived him as
"deutschfreundlich" (German-friendly). Izaak led Witbooi troops under German
command at several occasions, including during the wars against the Khauas Nama and
Ovambanderu communities in 1896 and the war against the Bondelswarts (!Gami-#nun) in 1903.
He joined Hendrik Witbooi in the Nama German War from October 1904 onwards and capitulated
soon after Hendrik Witbooi's death on 29.10.1905.
---
Gender: m
Field of activity: POL
Mother: Margarete Izaak
Father: Hendrik Izaak
RAW DATA: Quellen 17:18.6.1881; BRMG 1877:30; Drechsler 1966:96, 207, 211, 220-222,
249-250, 339, 341, 360;
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