Kavara was a 'selfless leader'

The Swapo Party has expressed its condolences to the bereaved family and friends of the late councillor of Ncuncuni constituency in the Kavango West Region, Rosa Kunyanda Kavara, who died on Tuesday.

Speaking to Namibian Sun yesterday, party secretary-general Sophia Shaningwa said Kavara would be remembered as a hardworking and selfless comrade who “only had the interest of her people at heart”.

“On behalf of the Swapo Party and its entire leadership, I wish to wholeheartedly extend my sincere condolences to the family, children and close people of the late comrade,” she said.

Kavara served as a regional councillor for Rundu Rural Constituency since 2010, as well as on the Standing Committee on Regional Development and Reports, and the National Council Women's caucus between 2011 and 2015.

“We have lost as a nation and as a region.





“Comrade Kavara was known for the drive behind the development in the two Kavango regions where she was a councillor, a hardworking person who has really made a difference in the lives of her people, and who contributed immensely to the development of the country,” said Shaningwa.

The Kavango West governor, Sirrka Ausiku, also lamented the loss of Kavara, saying: “We have lost one of the leaders of the Kavango West Regional Council, the only woman among all the councillors we have and a member of the National Council.”

Kavara was recently elected to the Swapo Party Central Committee at the ruling party's sixth congress held in Windhoek late last year.

She was born at Nakazaza village in the Kavango West Region on 22 February 1958.