Lempy Lucas

The Honourable
Lempy Lucas
MP
Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry
Assumed office
4 December 2012
Preceded by Petrus Iilonga
Deputy Minister of Defence
In office
21 March 2010 – 4 December 2012
Succeeded by Petrus Iilonga
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
2004 – 21 March 2010
Preceded by Kaire Mbuende
Personal details
Born (1961-11-07) 7 November 1961
Eendombe, Omusati Region
Nationality Namibian
Political party SWAPO
Occupation Politician
Profession Clerk

Lempy Lucas (born 7 November 1961 in Eendombe, Omusati Region) is a Namibian politician.[1] A member of the National Assembly since 2000, Lucas is a member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). Lucas has held a number of Deputy Minister positions in Namibia's government, she currently is Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry. She had previously been a SWAPO Party Youth League activist.[2]

Career

Lucas joined SWAPO in 1979 and fled shortly thereafter to Angola, where she studied. In 1982, she earned a diploma in Youth Administration from East Germany. She then returned to Angola in the mid-1980s, where she worked as an administrator at the SWAPO Health and Education Centre at Kwanza-Sul. In 1986 she was reassigned to Luanda, where she worked in the SWAPO headquarters until independence in 1989. From 1990 to 2002, Lucas served as an important figure in the SWAPO Party Youth League. In 1997, she joined the SWAPO Central Committee. In 2004, she was appointed to the position of Deputy Foreign Minister. She was then a resident of Ohangwena Region.[3]

Following the 2009 parliamentary elections, Lucas was redeployed as Deputy Minister of Defence. In the Cabinet reshuffle following the fifth SWAPO congress in 2012, Lucas swapped positions with Petrus Iilonga and is now the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Profile at Parliament.gov.na
  2. ↑ President names new Ministers The Namibian, 28 May 2004
  3. ↑ Lempy Lucas at Namibia Institute for Democracy
  4. ↑ Shipanga, Selma; Immanuel, Shinovene (5 December 2012). "Transition team picked". The Namibian.
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