The Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade (MIT) is a government ministry of Namibia, with headquarters in Windhoek. It was created at Namibian independence in 1990 as Ministry of Trade and Industry,[1] renamed Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and SME Development in 2015, and got its current name in 2020. The first Namibian minister of trade was Ben Amathila.[2] The minister is Lucia Iipumbu.[3]
All trade and industry ministers in chronological order are:[1]
| Picture | Name | Party | Term start | Term end | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minister of Trade and Industry | |||||||
| 1 | 1938– | 1990 | 1993 | ||||
| 2 | 1939–2016 | SWAPO | 1993 | 2005 | |||
| 3 | 1952–2022 | SWAPO | 2005 | 2008 | |||
| 4 | 1941– | SWAPO | 2008 | 2012 | |||
| 5 | 1954– | SWAPO | 2012 | 2015 | |||
| Minister of Industrialization, Trade and SME Development | |||||||
| 1952–2022 | SWAPO | 2015 | 2018 | ||||
| 6 | 1967– | SWAPO | 2018 | 2020 | |||
| Minister of Industrialisation and Trade | |||||||
| 7 | 1975– | SWAPO | 2020 | ||||