| Intro | Namibian politician |
| Is | Politician |
| From | Namibia |
| Type | Politics |
| Gender | male |
| Politics | SWAPO |
Bernadus Clinton Swartbooi (born 11 October. 1977 in Tses, ǁKaras Region) is a Namibian politician who was Governor of the ǁKaras Region before being appointed as Namibia’s deputy minister of land reform in 2015 by President Hage Geingob, a position he subsequently was forced to resign in January 2017. On 27 July 2017, Swartbooi was removed from Parliament and resigned from SWAPO after which he went on to form the Landless People’s Movement (Namibia). Swartbooi attended his secondary school at Suiderlig Senior Secondary School in Keetmanshoop. While at the University of Namibia he served as the Secretary General for Namibia National Students Organisation and progressed to be the President of the organisation. He prosecuted in Tsumeb and Khorixas respectively, he was also special assistant at the office of the Prime Minister . He holds a Basic Education Teaching Diploma from Windhoek College of Education and B juris as well as Bachelor of Laws from the University of Namibia.
He is currently the President of the Landless People’s Movement (Namibia), a new political party in Namibia started with the aim to bring about change in the country through equitable land redistribution .
Formation of the Landless People’s Movement
In 2017 after being fired by president Hage Geingob from his ministerial position, Swartbooi formed the Landless People’s Movement (Namibia) as a means of advocating for ancestral land from displaced Namibians whose land was possessed by German settlers in the 1900s.