Peter Tsheehama

Angura Peter Tshirumbu Tsheehama (1941–2010) was a commander in the People's Liberation Army of Namibia, diplomat, Chief of Intelligence, and Namibian minister.

Tsheehama was born on 31 March 1941 at Onangodhi in the Omusati Region. He was educated at Döbra Teacher's Training College from 1963 to 1964 and afterwards taught at Iipanda ya Amithi in northern Namibia. Tsheehama entered SWAPO soon after its inception. In January 1966 he went into exile, first to Botswana where he taught literacy classes, then to Zambia where he furthered his own education. In 1969 he graduated from Nkumbi International College with a qualification in politics.

He then moved to Angola, and from there to Russia where in the 1970s he studied at the Lenin Institute of Ideological Studies in Moscow. In 1984, he received a Diploma in Military Science in Yugoslavia. He moved to Havana, Cuba, that same year to represent SWAPO in Central and South America and the Caribbean. Tsheehama only returned to Namibia in 1989, shortly before the country became independent.

Even as a government minister, Tsheehama kept a generally low profile and rarely gave interviews or hosted press conferences. He was married and had children. Tsheehama retired in 2008 due to medical problems. He died on 3 October 2010 in Otjiwarongo and was buried in a state funeral at Heroes' Acre near Windhoek.

Tsheehama joined the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) in 1969 and became commander in the early 1970s. One year later he was appointed to the PLAN military council, and in 1976 he became SWAPO military attaché in Angola. At that time he had risen to PLAN Deputy Chief of Administration. He was promoted to Chief of Administration in 1984.

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