Salmon D. Isaack (President)

SALMON D. Isaack was born on July 27, 1937 in Berseba. He started school at Nowak Primary School in Tses after which he attended the African Methodist Church Private School in Gibeon. He then went to the Augustineum Secondary School, then situated in Okahandja, where he did his secondary education and completed his teacher’s training. From 1960, he joined the South West Africa National Union, Swanu, and became one of its founder members serving as an executive member. He went into exile in the late 1960s and lived in Botswana for over a decade.

Isaack returned to Namibia in 1979 under the DTA amnesty and became a member of the National Patriotic Front (NPF). He then joined the Namibia National Front, which was his last political party. Isaack later went back to teaching and taught at different schools in the southern part of the country. After retiring from teaching he became active in the community and found himself superintendent of St Theresa Hostel in Mariental. He then started farming and later became leader of the Nama First Indigenous Forum in Namibia.

His qualifications include certificates from Denmark where he studied Consumer Marketing and Tanzania where he did Bookkeeping and Accounting.

Adam Isaak (Secretary General)

Adam Isaak was born on September 21, 1976 at !Gai//anaxas in the Berseba constituency of the Karas Region. He started his primary school at Nowak in 1984 in Tses. He proceeded to the St. Teresa Junior Secondary School in the same area.

Isaak moved to Mariental in 1993 to do his Grade 10 and 12 at Mariental High School. He completed his schooling in 1995 and started working for the Hardap Irrigation Scheme as a maize cropper and also picking cotton for a year. He left for Telecom where he was responsible for underground cables installation in !Asab in the Karas Region.

In 1997, Isaak moved to the First National Bank (FNB) in Mariental where he was employed as a financial data entry clerk. He held that position for five years before being transferred to Windhoek where he worked in the FNB’s Estate and Trust Department for two years. In 2003, he became a communal farmer and businessman.

He holds a certificate in banking from the Institute of Bankers of Southern Africa. Isaak also has a Diploma in Personnel Management and Human Resources obtained through the Cambridge Tutorial College, United Kingdom. He is now pursuing a course in law through the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is a founding member of the party.

Adam J. Baisako (Chairperson)
Adam J. Baisako was born in the Karas Region on a farm called Gai//anaxas on January 23, 1960. He started school at Gai//anaxas in 1968 and after Grade 6, he moved to Nowak in Tses where he did Grade 7. He went to Donbosco School in Keetmanshoop for his secondary education ending in Grade 10.

Baisako moved to Windhoek in 1977 for night classes that he could not complete due to peer pressure. He took up work in 1978 at TransNamib (railway) as a general worker until 1981 when he returned to farm Gai//anaxas. In 1983, he moved back to the capital and worked as a general worker under the white administration. He then joined the South African Defence Force for one-and-a-half years. He left for his birthplace in 1989. In 1993, he became a community activist before joining the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement as a contract worker counselling people with disabilities until 1996. In 2000 he was promoted to clerical assistant, a post he held until 2002. Last year he became one of the founder members of DPN in Maltahöhe in the Hardap Region.

Timotheus Pieter (Information and Political Publicity Officer)
Timotheus Pieter was born in Mariental on September 17, 1975. He started school at the Mariental Junior Primary School in 1982. He then moved to the African Ecumenical Private School in Gibeon for his secondary education but could only go up to Grade 11. In 1993, he joined Coin Security Namibia, a job he held until 1997. After being retrenched he joined the Fidelity Guard Namibia. He left the security guard job and joined Skorpion Zinc Mine as a side clerk/storeman/material controller from 2002 to 2003.

In 2003, he worked for the Community-Based Organisation, Southern Sun Media Trust as a freelance writer until 2005. In 2006, he did a survey for decentralisation for the Ministry of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development through the Karas Regional Council and later became a goat farmer until now. He is a founder member of the DPN.

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