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Frans Indongo | |
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| Born | Fransisco Indongo (1936-01-15)January 15, 1936 (age 90) |
| Citizenship | Namibian |
Fransisco Aupa Indongo (born January 15 1936), is a Namibian businessman and former politician. He owns Continental Enterprises, Indongo Toyota, Frans Indongo Gardens, Farm Gelukwater, Select Service and Gas Station, Etango Complex in Oshakati and various shares in mining and fishing companies in Namibia. He is the father-in-law of lawyerSisa Namandje and banker Wosman Hamukonda. He is third on the list of Namibia's top ten richest people, behind the Pupkewitz and Olthaver & List families.
Indongo opened his first business, which made bricks, in the late 1950s. With the profits from that business, he bought sewing equipment for cloth making, which he sold inOranjemund. In 1961, he opened a small shop inOmusimboti, Oshana which eventually allowed him to open a chain of supermarkets across the country. Indongo owns a large number of properties across Namibia, including locations inSwakopmund,Tsumeb,Walvis Bay,Otjiwarongo andWindhoek as well as holdings in the sugar and fishing industries.
Indongo entered politics in the 1970s as a leading member of theNational Democratic Party, which became part of theDemocratic Turnhalle Alliance following the completion of theTurnhalle Constitutional Conference in 1977. At the Turnhalle Conference, Indongo was an important member of theOvamboland delegation. He was Minister of Economic Affairs in the Owambo legislative assembly from 1975 and from 1980 a Minister in the Owambo Second Tier Representative Authority.[1] In 1982, he was a founding member of theChristian Democratic Action for Social Justice, led byPeter Kalangula. He resigned from politics in the late 1980s to manage his business affairs.
In 2001, Indongo received an honorary doctorate in business administration from theUniversity of Namibia. In 2003, a street was named after him in downtown Windhoek.
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