Anton von Wietersheim explained

Anton von Wietersheim (born 10 June 1951[1]) is a Namibian politician. Wietersheim was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia from 1989 to 1990 and was elected to the National Assembly as a SWAPO candidate in 1990. He served as Minister of Agriculture from 1992 until he resigned in 1993.[2]

In August 2009, Wietersheim re-entered politics as a member of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), an opposition party that was created by dissident members of SWAPO.[3] At the party congress in September 2009, Wietersheim was placed at the 5th spot, which was just below the party's central committee.[4] In the November 2009 parliamentary election, he was one of eight RDP candidates to win seats in the National Assembly.[5]

In September 2010, von Wietersheim and eight other opposition politicians were sworn-in as members of the National Assembly following a six-month boycott due to perceived electoral irregularities in the 2009 election which were proven false by the supreme court of Namibia.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Klaus Becker, Jürgen Hecker, and Sigrid Kube, Vom Schutzgebiet bis Namibia, 1884 - 1984 (1985), page 523 .
  2. News: Namibia's First Cabinet . 6–7 . 30th Independence anniversary supplement to several Namibian newspapers . March 2020.
  3. http://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?id=28&tx_ttnews%5btt_news%5d=58308&no_cache=1 "Former Agriculture Minister joins RDP"
  4. http://www.nshr.org.na/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=1163 RESULTS OF RDP ELECTORAL COLLEGE: MY ANALYSIS
  5. Tileni Mongudhi and Christof Maletsky, "Who's in, who's out", The Namibian, 7 December 2009.
  6. Web site: "Full house" . 2012-03-31 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120331214430/http://www.namibian.com.na/news/full-story/archive/2010/september/article/full-house/ . 2012-03-31 ., The Namibian, 15 September 2010.