Making a Difference

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Libertina in 1957 at Augustineum School, Okahandja Libertina (circled) with her class at Augustineum Phillipus Matsuib (left) and Alub Bachman, Libertina’s elder brothers Petrina Murorua, Libertina’s older mother (aunt) Libertina and Ben Amathila on their wedding day, 30 January 1970 SWAPO Secretary for Defence, Peter Nanyemba, who watched over Libertina as she passed through Southern Rhodesia in 1962, on her way to Tanganyika Dr Libertina examining a child at the clinic at SWAPO’s Health and Education Centre, Nyango, Zambia, late 1970s Per Sanden National Archives Beginnings of the children’s settlement at Ndalatando, Angola, c. 1981 Dormitories at the Mavulu Centre, Ndalatando National Archives SPARC National Archives SPARC Children at the Mavulu Centre The main house, used as the clinic The house Libertina built for herself at Morenga Village, Angola, 1984 Trainee nurses at Morenga Village Libertina (right) and women at the Morenga Village garden SPARC SPARC The first sitting of the National Assembly of independent Namibia, Independence Day, 21 March 1990, with Theo-Ben Gurirab, Minister of Foreign Affairs Receiving the Nansen Medal in 1991 at UN headquarters in Geneva, for her work with Namibian refugees during the struggle for Independence UNHCR Minister of Housing and Local Government 1990-96, with women members of a brick-building project Vendors at the Horseshoe Market in Katutura, designed and built by Libertina Isabel Katjavivi Receiving the HABITAT Scroll of Honour awarded for services to housing, at UN headquarters in Geneva, 1993 At the unveiling of the street in Otjiwarongo named after her Revisiting the hostel in Warsaw, Poland, where she lived as a medical student in the 1960s Speaking at her first World Health Organisation Assembly in Geneva, 1975 President of the 53rd World Health Organisation Assembly, Geneva, 2000, while Minister of Health and Social Services in Namibia Receiving the Most Excellent Order of the Eagle, first class, from President Sam Nujoma on Heroes Day, 26 August 2002, at the opening of Heroes’ Acre Before the ceremony, with Laura McCleod-Katjirua, Governor of the Omaheke Region (left) and Grace Ushona, Governor of Otjozondjupa Region Handover of the Uitkoms Farm to the San people in February 2008. Back row (left to right): Chief Langman; Chief Royal, member of the National Assembly; Chief Dawid Khamugab; Councillor Katae, headman of Uitkoms; Chief Arnold. Front row (left to right): Chief Bobo; Dr Libertina Amathila, Deputy Prime Minister; Chief Sofia Jacobs; Hon. Moses Goma, Member of National Council Goats donated to the Uitkoms Community With trainees from the coffin-building project, Hon. Willem Konjore, Minister of Environment and Tourism (right), and project organizers, Mr and Mrs Blaauw OPM OPM OPM OPM OPM OPM OPM OPM OPM Camping in Kunene Region while building villages for the mountain Ovatue and Ovatjimba people in 2007-08 OPM OPM Libertina’s dream team: (left to right), Aaron Kapere (driver); Thomas Shilongo; Phillipus Thimoteus (security officer); Jafed Kaputjaza (driver); and Aaron Clase. Shilongo and Clase supervised the building projects Children at Ohaihuua Village: inside the new school and at play Accompanying President Pohamba on a visit to Ohaihuua Gardening at one of the new villages and addressing a village meeting OPM OPM OPM In traditional Herero dress for the Opening of the National Assembly in March 2005 At the Opening of the National Assembly in February 2008 At a farewell celebration in Parliament Gardens to mark Libertina’s retirement in March 2010, with Prime Minister Nahas Angula (left) and Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, Nangula Mbako (right) Republikein Republikein Chair of the Domestic Workers’ Wages Commission (2012-13) with fellow commissioners (left to right) Dr Hilma ShindondolaMote (National Union of Namibian Workers), Clement Daniels (legal practitioner), Uahatjiri Ngaujake (Social Security Commission), and Veronica De Klerk (Namibian Employers’ Federation) On her farm in the Omaheke Region Republikein ...