Hage Gottfried Geingob yavutse ku ya 3 Kanama 1941 yitaba Imana ku ya 4 Gashyantare 2024, yari umunyapolitiki wo muri Namibiya wabaye perezida wa gatatu wa Namibiya kuva ku ya 21 Werurwe 2015 kugeza apfuye ku ya 4 Gashyantare 2024.
Geingob yahoze ari Minisitiri w’intebe wa mbere wa Namibiya kuva 1990 kugeza 2002, kandi yongeye kuba minisitiri w’intebe kuva 2012 kugeza 2015. Hagati ya 2008 na 2012 Geingob yabaye Minisitiri w’ubucuruzi n’inganda. Yabaye perezida w’ishyaka riri ku butegetsi SWAPO kuva mu Gushyingo 2017 kugeza apfuye muri Gashyantare 2024.
Mu Gushyingo 2014, Geingob yatorewe kuba perezida wa Namibiya ku majwi menshi. Mu Gushyingo 2017, Geingob abaye perezida wa gatatu wa SWAPO nyuma yo gutsinda amajwi menshi muri kongere ya 6 y’ishyaka. Muri Kanama 2018, Geingob yatangiye manda y’umwaka umwe nk’umuyobozi w’umuryango w’iterambere ry’Afurika yepfo.
Geingob yavukiye mu gace ka Otjiwarongo, Muri Afurika y’Epfo y’Amajyepfo (Namibiya y’ubu), mu 1941.
Amashuri ye ya mbere yayize i Otavi muri Afurika y’Epfo y’Amajyepfo muri gahunda ya Bantu (Bantu Education System).. Yinjiyemo muri Augustineum, aho benshi mu bayobozi bakuru ba politiki bakomeye bo muri Namibiya bize, mu 1958.
Mu 1960, yirukanwe muri Augustineum kubera ko yitabiriye urugendo rwo kwamagana imyigire mibi y’uburezi. Icyakora, yongeye kwandikwa arangiza amasomo yo guhugura abarimu mu 1961.
Nyuma yaho, yafashe umwanya wo kwigisha mu ishuri ribanza rya Tsumeb muri Namibiya rwagati, ariko ahitamo ko adashobora gukomeza amashuri ye muri Namibiya. Nkumwarimu, yanze kandi guhatirwa kwitabira gahunda yuburezi bwa Bantu (Bantu Education System).
Kubera iyo mpamvu, umwaka w’amashuri urangiye, yavuye ku kazi ashakisha ubumenyi n’amabwiriza ashobora kumufasha guhindura sisitemu.
We na bagenzi be batatu baragenda maze berekeza muri Botswana kugira ngo bahunge (Bantu Education System).
Kuva muri Botswana, yari ateganijwe kujya i Dar es Salaam, muri Tanzaniya, mu ndege yari yarahawe na Kongere y’igihugu Nyafurika (ANC), ariko indege yaraturikijwe n’Abanyafurika yepfo.
Icyakora, igisasu cyari cyatewe mu ndege cyagiye igihe kitaragera, mbere yuko indege ibasha guhaguruka. Nyuma yaho, ubutegetsi bwa apartheid bwakajije umurego “gari ya moshi yo munsi y’ubutaka”. Kubera iyo mpamvu, Geingob yagumye muri Botswana, aho yabaye umufasha w’umuryango w’umuryango w’ibihugu by’Afurika yepfo (SWAPO) (1963–64).
Mu 1964, Geingob yagiye muri Amerika kwiga muri kaminuza ya Temple i Philadelphia, muri Pennsylvania, ari naho yahawe buruse. Nyuma, yabonye impamyabumenyi ya BA yakuye muri kaminuza ya Fordham mu mujyi wa New York mu 1970 ndetse n’impamyabumenyi ya MA mu mibanire mpuzamahanga yakuye mu ishami rya Graduate ishami ry’ishuri rishya, New York mu 1974.
Mu 1964, yagizwe uhagarariye SWAPO mu Muryango w’abibumbye no muri Amerika. Yakoze kuri uyu mwanya kugeza mu 1971. Yakoze ingendo ndende, yambukiranya Amerika, avugana n’abantu, kandi avugana n’abari bateraniye aho. We na bagenzi be ntabwo buri gihe babaga batsinze, ariko amaherezo Inteko rusange y’umuryango w’abibumbye yemeje ko SWAPO ari we wenyine uhagarariye abaturage ba Namibiya. Urugamba rwa Namibiya ku mahuriro mpuzamahanga, n’intambara yabo yitwaje intwaro yatangiye mu 1966, amaherezo byatumye Namibia yigenga mu 1990.
Geingob yari azwiho kuba umufana w’umupira w’amaguru kandi yitabira imikino myinshi ikomeye. Yahoraga yitabira ibihembo bya buri mwaka bya Namibia (NAMAs), kandi mu busore bwe yaririmbaga muri korari, kandi akaba umucuranzi mu itsinda.
Mu 1967, Geingob yashakanye na Priscilla Charlene Cash, ukomoka mu mujyi wa New York; babyaranye umukobwa umwe witwa Nangula Geingos-Dukes.
Geingob yaje gushyingiranwa na Loini Kandume, wari umucuruzi, ku ya 11 Nzeri 1993, i Windhoek, aho babyaranye abana babiri: umukobwa n’umuhungu.
Muri Gicurasi 2006, Geingob yatangiye gukurikirana ubutane kuri Kandume, maze ahabwa icyemezo cy’ubutane by’agateganyo muri Nyakanga 2008.
Geingob yashakanye na Monica Kalondo ku ya 14 Gashyantare 2015. Yitiriwe ibikorwa remezo bitandukanye nka Stade ya Hage Geingob Rugby hamwe n’ishuri ry’ubuvuzi rya kaminuza ya Namibiya byombi muri Windhoek bamwitiriwe.
Ku ya 4 Gashyantare 2024, Visi Perezida Nangolo Mbumba yatangaje ko Geingob yapfiriye mu bitaro bya Windhoek, yongeraho ati: “Kuruhande rwe hari umugore we n’abana be bamukundaga.”
