Elma Dienda

Elma Jane Dienda (born 16 November 1964 in Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa) is a Namibian politician and teacher. Currently a member Democratic Turnhalle Alliance which she joined four years after her resignation from the CoD,[1] Dienda was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia from taking CoD's final spot in 2004 until CoD did not receive enough votes for her re-election in 2009.[2] She is of South African and Malawian descent.[3]

Career

Dienda is a teacher by profession, having earned an education diploma at the Windhoek College of Education and worked at Eldorado High School in Khomasdal. She received training as a counselor at Catholic AIDS Action.

Political positions

Dienda led a drive in the National Assembly which called for the distribution of condoms to prison inmates as a means of preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. Dienda and other opposition politicians were shouted down, with Utoni Nujoma and Petrus Iilonga vocally opposing the idea. Several SWAPO members denied that sexual activities ever occurred in prisons.[4]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.sun.com.na/politics/former-cod-mp-dienda-joins-dta.63132
  2. ↑ Who’s in, who’s out The Namibian, 7 December 2009
  3. ↑ Profile at the Namibia Institute for Democracy
  4. ↑ 'Sex and the Prisons' get a rise out of MPs The Namibian, 19 June 2008


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