Hage Geingob

Hage Gottfried Geingob^[1] (3 August 1941 – 4 February 2024^[2]) was a Namibian politician. He was the third President of Namibia from 21 March 2015 until his death on 4 February 2024. Geingob was the first Prime Minister of Namibia from 21 March 1990 to 28 August 2002 and again from 4 December 2012 to 21 March 2015.^[2]

Hage Geingob
Hage Geingob in 2020
3rd President of Namibia
In office 21 March 2015 – 4 February 2024
Prime Minister	Saara Kuugongelwa
Vice President	Nickey Iyambo (2015-2018) Nangolo Mbumba (2018-2024)
Preceded by	Hifikepunye Pohamba
Succeeded by	Nangolo Mbumba
President of SWAPO
In office 26 November 2017 – 4 February 2024
Preceded by	Hifikepunye Pohamba
1st and 4th Prime Minister of Namibia
In office 4 December 2012 – 20 March 2015
President	Hifikepunye Pohamba
Preceded by	Nahas Angula
Succeeded by	Saara Kuugongelwa
In office 21 March 1990 – 28 August 2002
President	Sam Nujoma
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Theo-Ben Gurirab
Minister of Trade and Industry
In office 8 April 2008 – 4 December 2012
Prime Minister	Nahas Angula
Preceded by	Immanuel Ngatjizeko
Succeeded by	Calle Schlettwein
Personal details
Born	(1941-08-03)3 August 1941 Otjiwarongo, South West Africa (now Namibia)
Died	4 February 2024(2024-02-04) (aged 82) Windhoek, Namibia
Political party	SWAPO
Spouse(s)	Priscilla "Patty" Geingos ​ ​ (m. 1967; div. 1992)​ Loini Kandume ​ ​ (m. 1992; div. 2008)​ Monica Kalondo ​ ​ (after 2015)​
Children	3
Alma mater	Temple University Fordham University (BA) The New School (MA) University of Leeds (PhD)
Religion	Lutheran

Election

Again candidate in the presidential election of November 2019, Geingob is reelected with 56.3% of the votes cast, down from 86% he had obtained five years ago. Panduleni Itula, dissident candidate of Swapo, head of the Landless Movement (LPM) of Bernadus Swartbooi gets 30% of the vote. Opposition leader McHenry Venaani of the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), formerly close to South Africa's apartheid, won 5.3 percent of the vote. The Swapo thus obtains 65% of the seats in the National Assembly, failing to obtain a two-thirds majority as in the previous legislature. Geingob is considered a populist in Namibia.

Death

On 8 January 2024, Geingob announced that he was diagnosed again with prostate cancer after a colonoscopy and a gastroscopy.^[3] He went for treatment in the United States on 25 January and returned to Namibia on 30 January following two days of treatment.^[4]

On 4 February 2024, Vice President Nangolo Mbumba announced that Geingob had died at a hospital in Windhoek, where he had been receiving treatment, aged 82.^[5]