Buddy Wentworth

The Honorable
Buddy Wentworth
Deputy Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport
In office
1990  21 March 1995
President Sam Nujoma
Preceded by position established
Deputy Minister of Tertiary Education and Vocational Training
In office
21 March 1995  2005
President Sam Nujoma
Preceded by position established
Personal details
Born James Wilfred Wentworth
17 January 1937
Died 4 June 2014(2014-06-04) (aged 77)
Olympia, Windhoek, Namibia
Nationality Namibian
Political party SWAPO
Children 10
Occupation Politician
Profession Teacher
Religion Muslim

James Wilfred "Buddy" Wentworth (17 January 1937 – 4 June 2014) was a Namibian politician. He was a member of the SWAPO fraction of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia and served as Deputy Minister in several education-related portfolios in the first, second and third National Assemblies of Namibia.[1] At the time he retired in 2005 he was one of two longest serving Deputy Ministers of Namibia.[2]

Wentworth came to Namibia from South Africa in 1970 and worked as teacher in Rehoboth, and as school principal at Tamariskia Primary School, Swakopmund. He joined SWAPO in 1972.[2][3]

Wentworth was a founding chairperson of the Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre in Windhoek, and chaired the National Commission for Unesco. He was a practising Muslim and had 10 children by his first wife. He was a recipient of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques for his contribution to the Namibian independence struggle. He died of heart failure on 4 June 2014 at his home in Olympia, Windhoek, aged 77.[2]

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