The Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) on Monday announced names of the newly elected leadership for the northern regions.

Re-elected chairperson for the MUN northern regions, Mathew Mberiuana, told Nampa in an interview on Monday that 66 delegate members from the several branches of the northern areas attended the one-day conference on Saturday at Tsumeb, where they elected their new northern regional leadership.

Mberiuana stated that positions of chairperson, vice chairperson, secretary, vice secretary, treasurer and vice treasurer, were all contested at the conference.

“These positions became vacant in August this year after their two-year term had lapsed,” he said.

On the position of chairperson, Mberiuana, who is from B2Gold Mine, was re-elected after contesting with two other candidates.

Mberiuana received 43 votes, while Leonard Kwenda from Dundee Precious Metals received 16 votes and Petrus Jacobus from the Northern Regional Electricity Distributors (Nored) received six votes.

Jessica Haradoes from the Central North Regional Electricity Distributors, (Cenored) was re-elected to her position of MUN northern regional secretary with 35 votes, while Gottfried Tsandib from B2Gold Mine was also re-elected as vice secretary with 45 votes.

Veiko Upindi from the NamPower Ruacana Station was newly elected to the position of treasurer with 43 votes, together with his vice treasurer, Philemon Shipanga, from the Cheetah Cement (39 votes).

The MUN’s new leadership for the northern regions is expected to serve for a period of two years, said Mberiuana.

Source: The Namibian Press Agency