Toivo Ndjebela
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| education = University of Namibia, University of Helsinki
| occupation = Journalist, editor
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Toivo Ndjebela is a Namibian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the Namibian Sun daily. He also worked as managing editor of the state-owned New Era newspaper.
Education
Ndjebela holds a bachelor's degree in media studies from the University of Namibia (2006) and a master's degree in foreign reporting from the University of Helsinki (2007). He also obtained a Masters in Development Study and Policy in 2018 from the Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice (GSDPP), University of Cape Town.{{Cite journal |last=Toivo |first=Ndjebela |date=2018 |title=The impact of exclusion of the urban ultra-poor from public housing on the lives of those excluded |url=https://open.uct.ac.za/server/api/core/bitstreams/58da3234-38a0-44f6-b6d9-7a95ec027477/content |journal=Masters Thesis |via=University of Cape Town}}
Career
He has worked as a deputy news editor at the state-owned newspaper New Era, a reporter at the tabloid newspaper Informanté, and as a senior journalist at the Windhoek Observer. He was appointed as the editor of the Namibian Sun in May 2012.{{cite news|title=New Editor for Namibian Sun|url=http://www.namibiansun.com/content/national-news/new-editor-for-namibian-sun|accessdate=5 November 2016|work=Namibian Sun|date=17 April 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064506/http://www.namibiansun.com/content/national-news/new-editor-for-namibian-sun|archivedate=4 March 2016}} Ndjebela returned to New Era in 2014, and again to the Namibian Sun, as editor-in-chief, in 2019. In 2021, he along with veteran journalist and editor Gwen Lister, was acknowledged as champion of world press freedom.{{cite news | title=Lister, Ndjebela press freedom champions | last=Ngatjiheue | first=Charmaine | url=https://www.namibian.com.na/209733/archive-read/Lister-Ndjebela-press-freedom-champions | newspaper=The Namibian | date=17 March 2021 | page=6}}
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