Toivo Ndjebela Explained

Toivo Ndjebela
Education:University of Namibia, University of Helsinki
Occupation:Journalist, editor
Namibian Sun, editor-in-chief
Nationality:Namibian
Years Active:2006– present
Website:https://www.namibiansun.com/

Toivo Ndjebela is a Namibian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the Namibian Sun daily. He also worked as managing editor of the state-owned New Era newspaper.

Education

Ndjebela holds a bachelor's degree in media studies from the University of Namibia (2006) and a master's degree in foreign reporting from the University of Helsinki (2007). He also obtained a Masters in Development Study and Policy in 2018 from the Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice (GSDPP), University of Cape Town.[1]

Career

He has worked as a deputy news editor at the state-owned newspaper New Era, a reporter at the tabloid newspaper Informanté, and as a senior journalist at the Windhoek Observer. He was appointed as the editor of the Namibian Sun in May 2012.[2] Ndjebela returned to New Era in 2014, and again to the Namibian Sun, as editor-in-chief, in 2019. In 2021, he along with veteran journalist and editor Gwen Lister, was acknowledged as champion of world press freedom.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Toivo . Ndjebela . 2018 . The impact of exclusion of the urban ultra-poor from public housing on the lives of those excluded . Masters Thesis . University of Cape Town.
  2. News: New Editor for Namibian Sun. 5 November 2016. Namibian Sun. 17 April 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064506/http://www.namibiansun.com/content/national-news/new-editor-for-namibian-sun. 4 March 2016.
  3. News: Lister, Ndjebela press freedom champions . Ngatjiheue . Charmaine . . 17 March 2021 . 6.