Dawid Boois (born 13 January 1952 in Berseba) is a Namibian politician and educator.
Boois attended St Theresa Secondary School in Tses and Augustineum Secondary School in Windhoek. He later became a teacher and the principal of Ecumenical Community Secondary School in Berseba.[1]
A member of SWAPO, Boois was a member of the National Assembly from 2000 before being appointed governor of the southern ǁKaras Region in 2004.[1] He since then contested Berseba Constituency, where he became councillor in 2004 after winning the seat in the 2004 regional elections with 1,724 of the 3,591 votes cast.[2] He was reelected in 2010 with 1,225 votes,[3] and in 2015 with 1,774 votes,[4]
Boois was involved in a controversy regarding the different factions of the traditional leadership of the ǀHaiǀKhaua (Berseba Orlam) subtribe of the Nama people. He supported a group contesting the legitimacy of the reunification of the Goliath and Isaak rival clans and tried to extend the 50-year-long split of the Berseba Orlam. Eventually Boois supported the unity of the tribe by reconciling with fellow former ǁKaras governor Stephanus Goliath early in 2011.[5]
According to transparency documents released in 2003 while Boois was a member of the National Assembly, the Berseba-native is a director of Kaiseb Fishing. He also owns 8% of the shares in the company. He also owns over 15,000 shares in Southern Namibia Hake Fishing Industries alongside fellow SWAPO politician Willem Konjore. He also owns a restaurant and hotel in ǁKaras Region.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Dawid Boois Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine Namibia Institute for Democracy
- ^ "Electoral Act, 1992: Notification of Result of General Election for Regional Councils" (pdf). Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. No. 3366. Government of Namibia. 3 January 2005. p. 16.
- ^ Election results from Electoral Commission of Namibia Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Regional Council Election Results 2015". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 3 December 2015. p. 1. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ^ Boois and Goliath bury the hatchet Archived 2011-02-28 at the Wayback Machine The Namibian, 25 February 2011