Zephania Kameeta - Independence Movement

Independence Movement

He was ordained as a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia in 1972, and taught at the Paulinum Seminary from 1973, and was principal 1976-77.

In 1975, Kameeta founded the Namibia National Convention, and was detained under the Terrorism Act while addressing an NNC meeting in Katutura, Windhoek to protest against the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference. He was kept in darkness and solitary confinement for a fortnight.

He was a parish minister in LĒ”deritz from 1978 to 1981. He was elected vice-president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1982 and deputy bishop in 1985. He was an exponent of Black Theology.

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