Namibia National Students Organisation

Namibia National Students Organisation

NANSO
Founded at	Windhoek
Type	Student Movement
Headquarters	Windhoek, Namibia
Region	Oshana, Oshakati, Ohangwena, Kavango West, Kavango East, Zambezi, Hardap, Erongo and Kunene
Services	Representing Namibian students
President	Ester Simon
Vice President	Benhard kavau
Secretary General	Simon Taapopi

The Namibia National Students Organisation (NANSO) was founded in July 1984 as a non-racial, democratic and independent student organisation. Since its formation, the organisation has been organising from the basic understanding that there is a need for students, together with other strata of our society, to make education respond to the needs of the country and its people. In as such the formation of NANSO was a necessary development in the struggle of the Namibian people against colonialism and foreign domination. Over the years NANSO has succeeded in organising, mobilising and uniting Namibian students so as to develop an awareness of national identity and unity of purpose.^[1]

Student Representation

NANSO has been representing Namibian students nationally since its inception in 1984. In 2016, the student organisation organised mass movements of Namibian students to demand free registration fees at the country's two major universities.^[2]

NANSO students sing protest songs in 1988

NANSO leads a student march at the University of Namibia in 2016

Namibia University of Science and Technology students sit at the university entrance demanding university fees be scrapped for the 2016 academic year

Notable Former Leaders

Regional Leadership (Khomas)

References