Richard Kamwi

{{Short description|Namibian medical physician and politician}}

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|office = Minister of Health and Social Services

|term_start = March 2005

|term_end = 21 March 2015

|president = Hifikepunye Pohamba

|predecessor = Libertina Amathila

|successor = Bernard Haufiku

|office1 = Deputy Minister of Health and Social Services

|term_start1 = March 2000

|term_end1 = 21 March 2005

|president1 = Sam Nujoma

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|birth_place = Ioma, Zambezi Region

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|nationality = Namibian

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Richard Nchabi Kamwi (born 3 June 1950 in Ioma, Zambezi Region) is a Namibian medical physician and politician.Hopwood, Graham. Guide to Namibian Politics, 2007 edition. Namibia Institute for Democracy, Windhoek, 2007 A member of the National Assembly with the South West Africa People's Organization since 1999, Kamwi was the Minister of Health and Social Services from March 2005 to 2015.{{Cite web | url=https://www.parliament.na/dt_team/kamwi-richard/ | title=Kamwi, Richard | publisher=Government of Namibia | accessdate=17 June 2022}}

After graduating from the Technikon Mmadikoti in Pietersburg, South Africa in 1980, Kamwi became the first black health inspector in Katima Mulilo. After being relieved of his position in 1984, and subsequently arrested for political subversion in 1985, Kamwi went into exile in Botswana. He served in the People's Liberation Army of Namibia until repatriation in 1989.

Kamwi resumed his position of health inspector until joining the National Assembly in 1999. In 2000, President Sam Nujoma appointed him to the post of deputy Minister of Health and Social Services under Libertine Amathila. Upon the promotion of minister Amathila to the post of deputy Prime Minister along with the election of president Hifikepunye Pohamba, Kamwi was promoted to minister. He served until 2015, and then took up farming on farm Rimini in the Otavi-Tsumeb-Grootfontein triangle.{{Cite news | title=Ex-health minister thrives in farming | last=Inambao | first=Chrispin | newspaper=New Era | date=14 July 2020 | url=https://neweralive.na/posts/ex-health-minister-thrives-in-farming}}