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KATJIUONGUA, Moses Katjikuru. Born 24 April 1942 to Theophelus Katjiuongua. He attended primary school in Aminuis and college in Bechuanaland. He later attended the Swedish Confederation of Labour College 1956-59, Magdeburg, East Germany to study journalism 1961-62 and then Stockholm University 1978-80 to get a BA in political science and administration. He stayed on to get his MA in International affairs, economics, human geography and theoretical philosophy.

His political activities continued concurrently with his studies, after he left Namibia in 1959. It was the South West African National Union, SWANU which gave him a scholarship to study Magdeburg, East Germany from where he went to work in the SWANU office in Cairo.

In 1983 he returned home and was elected SWANU president. He led the SWANU delegation to the Multi Party Conference in September 1983, but his party split on the question of participation in the internal settlement. A congress called by opponents relieved him and his supporters of their posts on the Central Committee in 1984. This weakened the parties influence.

On 10 May 1985 he was appointed Minister of Manpower, National Health and welfare in the cabinet of the Transitional government of National Unity. He fought the November 1989 pre-independence elections under the National Patriotic Front banner and was the only member of the party to win a seat.