Hage Geingob
| Hage Geingob | |
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| 3rd President of Namibia | |
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Assumed office 21 March 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Saara Kuugongelwa |
| Vice President | Nickey Iyambo |
| Preceded by | Hifikepunye Pohamba |
| President of SWAPO | |
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Assumed office 19 April 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Hifikepunye Pohamba |
| Prime Minister of Namibia | |
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In office 4 December 2012 – 20 March 2015 |
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| President | Hifikepunye Pohamba |
| Preceded by | Nahas Angula |
| Succeeded by | Saara Kuugongelwa |
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In office 21 March 1990 – 28 August 2002 |
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| President | Sam Nujoma |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Theo-Ben Gurirab |
| Minister of Trade and Industry | |
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In office 8 April 2008 – 4 December 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | Nahas Angula |
| Preceded by | Immanuel Ngatjizeko |
| Succeeded by | Calle Schlettwein |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
3 August 1941 Otjiwarongo, Southwest Africa (now Namibia) |
| Political party | SWAPO |
| Spouse(s) | Patty Geingos (Married 1967; Divorced) Loini Kandume (1993–2008) Monica Kalondo (2015–present) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater |
Temple University Fordham University New School University of Leeds |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
Hage Gottfried Geingob (born 3 August 1941) is the third and the current President of Namibia, in office since 21 March 2015. Geingob was the first Prime Minister of Namibia from 21 March 1990 to 28 August 2002, and he served as Prime Minister again from 4 December 2012 to 21 March 2015. Between 2008 and 2012 Geingob served as Minister of Trade and Industry. He was Vice-President of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) between 2007 and 2015 and became President in 2015 when his predecessor, Hifikepunye Pohamba, stepped down.
In November 2014, Geingob was elected as President of Namibia by an overwhelming margin.
Geingob was born in Otjiwarongo, South-West Africa (present-day Namibia), in 1941. He received his early education at Otavi in South-West Africa under the Bantu Education System. He joined the Augustineum, where most of today’s prominent political leaders of Namibia were educated, in 1958. In 1960, he was expelled from Augustineum for having participated in a march in protest at the poor quality of education. He was, however, re-admitted and was able to finish the teacher-training course in 1961. Subsequently, he took up a teaching position at the Tsumeb Primary School in Central Namibia but soon discovered that his thirst for knowledge was unlikely to be quenched in Namibia. As a teacher, he also hated being an unwilling instrument in perpetuating the Bantu Education System.
Therefore, at the end of the school year, he left his job to seek knowledge and instruction that could help him change the system. He, with three of his colleagues, walked and hitch-hiked to Botswana to escape the system. From Botswana, he was scheduled to go to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on a plane chartered by the African National Congress (ANC). However, this plane was blown up by the South Africans when it was still on the ground because the time bomb went off prematurely. Subsequently, the apartheid regime also tightened up the "underground railway". As a result, Hage Geingob stayed on in Botswana where he served as Assistant South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) Representative in Botswana (1963–64).
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