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- ↑ Biography at Parliament.gov.na
- ↑ Kamanjab Constituency Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine Electoral Commission of Namibia
- ↑ "Members of the 7th National Assembly". New Era . 23 March 2020. p. 1.
- ↑ Guide to Namibian Politics by Graham Hopwood, Namibia Institute for Democracy, Windhoek, 2007
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