Utaara Mootu
Utaara Mootu | |
|---|---|
| File:Utaara Mootu in 2020.jpg Mootu in 2020 | |
| Member of National Assembly | |
| In office 20 March 2020 – 20 March 2025 | |
| President | Hage Geingob |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 January 1996 Namibia |
| Alma mater | University of Namibia |
Utaara Mootu is a Namibian politician, youth leader and activist.[1] She is an elected member of the Parliament of Namibia following the 2019 elections, representing the Landless People's Movement (Namibia) and serves as the party's parliamentary spokesperson.[2]
Early life
Utaara was born in Windhoek on 19 January 1996. She began her education in 2002 at Van Rhyn Primary school in Windhoek, and then Concordia Secondary School. She then furthered her studies in Business Administration (Diploma) at the University of Namibia and continued to a Bachelor's (Honours) in Public Management majoring in Political Science and International Relations. While at the university, she obtained the best 4th year award in her Department of Political Studies and Administration in 2019.[3]
Activism and politics
Utaara served as a member in the Learners Representative Council in 2013 and joined various charity programs in church as a child. She also took part in the 2013 high schools battle competition where she took first place in the female's category. In 2016 she became Vice President of Aesthetics a performing arts society in university. She later joined student activism and feminist groups in 2017 through protests and poetry. In late 2017 she joined the Landless People's Movement (Namibia) spearheaded by Bernadus Swartbooi and Henny Seibeb and become an active activist joining the struggle of the people of Venezuela, genocide and a staunch advocate for land justice.[4]
She became a founding member of the Landless People's Movement transition to a political on 8 February 2019. In 2018 she served as the interim National Spokesperson for LPM being the youngest spokesperson and executive member of a political party after Independence at the age of 22. During the people's assembly in October 2018 she was elected as the official spokesperson of the party and was elected as the 4th candidate on the party's parliamentary list.[5]
A member of the Pan African Reinasance Country Chapters and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Talent Empowernment Program, she was sworn in as one of the youngest members of the 7th Parliament of Namibia at the age of 24 on 20 March 2020.[6][7]
References
- ^ "Young MPs promise radical change". The Namibian. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The Young Face of LPM". The Namibian. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ Staff Reporter (4 December 2019). "To be robustly head-on with corruption – LPM's Mootu". New Era Live. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ "Coronavirus Namibia: Are we ready?". The Namibian. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ "LPM releases parliamentary list". The Namibian. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "LPM condemns alleged police and military brutality during joint operations". Namibia: NBC. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ "Landless People's Movement has condemned the recent alleged police brutality against a 15-year-old girl". www.namibianewsdigest.com. Retrieved 27 March 2020.