Samuel Mbambo

Rev. Samuel Kaveto Mbambo (born in Kavango Region) is a Namibian politician, diplomat, theologian, historian, and academic. He was a governor of the Kavango Region, and after its split into Kavango West and Kavango East, also of these new entities.{{cite news

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}} He also served as Namibia's ambassador to the Russian Federation as well as its high commissioner to India.{{cite web

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Mbambo was appointed governor of Namibia's Kavango Region in April 2013, succeeding Maurus Nekaro.{{cite news | url=https://www.namibian.com.na/110797/archive-read/Pohamba-continues-to-pave-way-for-Geingob | title=Pohamba continues to pave way for Geingob | last=Immanuel | first=Shinovene | date=22 April 2013 | newspaper=The Namibian}} When the Fourth Delimitation Commission of Namibia, responsible for recommending on the country's administrative divisions suggested in August 2013 to split the Kavango Region into two, creating the new regions of Kavango East and Kavango West,{{cite news | title=President divides Kavango into two | last=Nakale | first=Albertina | date=9 August 2013 | newspaper=New Era | publisher=allafrica.com | url=http://www.newera.com.na/articles/53580/President-divides-Kavango-into-two | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022020857/http://www.newera.com.na/articles/53580/President-divides-Kavango-into-two | archivedate=22 October 2014 | access-date=16 August 2013 }} Mbambo was for a few months governor of both.{{cite news

|url=http://www.newera.com.na/namibian-national-news/kavango-awaits-governor/

|title=Kavango awaits second governor

|last=Haufiku

|first=Mathias

|date=22 August 2013

|work=New Era

|access-date=12 June 2014

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}} In April 2014 Sirkka Ausiku was appointed governor of Kavango West while Mbambo continued as governor of Kavango East.{{cite news

|title=New broom in new region

|publisher=Namibia Press Agency

|date=28 April 2014

|newspaper=The Namibian

|volume=28

|issue=76

|page=2}} His term expired in 2020, and he was not reappointed.{{cite news | url=https://www.namibiansun.com/news/goodbye2020-04-08/ | title=Goodbye | date=10 April 2020 | page=1 | newspaper=Namibian Sun}} Mbambo is a long-term SWAPO member and was elected to its central committee in 2021.{{cite news | url=https://www.namibian.com.na/6213944/archive-read/Sampofu-Mbambo-sworn-in-as-Swapo-central-committee-members | title=Sampofu, Mbambo sworn in as Swapo central committee members | date=10 February 2021 | newspaper=The Namibian}}

Mbambo is a pastor in the Evangelical Reformed Church of Africa[http://rec.gospelcom.net/TF-Nov94-mbambo.html Witchcraft and healing in the Kavango] Theological Forum, November 1994 interview and President of the Council of Churches in Namibia.[https://web.archive.org/web/20030301163318/http://www.namibian.com.na/2002/October/national/028D947042.html Ask God for forgiveness to end violence' - CCN] The Namibian, 14 October 2002