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Leon Jooste

Politician

Leon Jooste is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Jooste, Leon · Leon Jooste				[sources]
Alias	Leon Jooste				[sources]
Birth date	1969-02-18				[sources]
Place of birth	Grootfontein				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Namibia				[sources]
Country	Namibia				[sources]
Citizenship	Namibia				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Leon				[sources]
Last name	Jooste				[sources]
Political association	SWAPO Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6524722				[sources]
Position	Member of the National Assembly of Namibia · Minister of Public Enterprises (2015-2022) · National Assembly (member, 2005-2010) · National Assembly (member, 2015-)				[sources]
Education	Stellenbosch University				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-18	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Namibian politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the National Assembly of Namibia	-	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories383,999

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,582

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata333,668

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,214

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-cia-namibia-leon-jooste-minister-of-public-enterprises · evpo-38841ecd-4611-43e2-b514-133b8cb91aa0

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