Ministry of Trade and Industry (Namibia)

The Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade (MIT) was 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 the name Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade in 2020. The first Namibian minister of trade was Ben Amathila.^[2]

In 2025 the ministry was disestablished. The trade portfolio was given to the foreign affairs ministry, and the industry portfolio to the Ministry of Mines and Energy.^[3] The current^[update] Minister of International Relations and Trade is Selma Ashipala-Musavyi, the Minister of Mines, Energy and Industry is Natangwe Ithete.

Ministers

All trade and industry ministers in chronological order are:^[1]

#	Name	(Birth–Death)	Party	Term start	Term end
Minister of Trade and Industry
1	Ben Amathila	1938–	SWAPO	1990	1993
2	Hidipo Hamutenya	1939–2016	SWAPO	1993	2005
3	Immanuel Ngatjizeko	1952–2022	SWAPO	2005	2008
4	Hage Geingob	1941–	SWAPO	2008	2012
5	Calle Schlettwein	1954–	SWAPO	2012	2015
Minister of Industrialization, Trade and SME Development
	Immanuel Ngatjizeko	1952–2022	SWAPO	2015	2018
6	Tjekero Tweya	1967–	SWAPO	2018	2020
Minister of Industrialisation and Trade
7	Lucia Iipumbu^[4]	1975–	SWAPO	2020	2025

#	Name	(Birth–Death)	Party	Term start
Minister of International Relations and Trade
8	Selma Ashipala-Musavyi	1960–	SWAPO	2025
Minister of Mines, Energy and Industry
8	Natangwe Ithete	1976–	SWAPO	2025

References

^ ^a ^b Sherbourne, Robin. Guide to the Namibian Economy 2013/14. Institute for Public Policy Research. p. 240. ISBN 978-99945-78-14-6.
^ Hopwood, Graham (2007). "Who's Who, entry for Ben Amathila". Guide to Namibian Politics. Namibia Institute for Democracy. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
^ Shikololo, Aletta (24 March 2025). "NNN ushers Namibia into new era". New Era.
^ "Leadership". Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade, Government of Namibia. Retrieved 27 April 2022.

External links

Official website Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade

[Sherbourne-1] Sherbourne, Robin. Guide to the Namibian Economy 2013/14. Institute for Public Policy Research. p. 240. ISBN 978-99945-78-14-6.

[NID-2] Hopwood, Graham (2007). "Who's Who, entry for Ben Amathila". Guide to Namibian Politics. Namibia Institute for Democracy. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2013.

[3] Shikololo, Aletta (24 March 2025). "NNN ushers Namibia into new era". New Era.

[MIT-4] "Leadership". Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade, Government of Namibia. Retrieved 27 April 2022.

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Ministry of Trade and Industry (Namibia)

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