Peter Kalangula
Peter Tanyangenge Kalangula (12 March 1926 – 20 February 2008) was a Namibian political and religious leader. Bishop Kalangula had an interesting personal history which involved both politics and church.[1]
Biography
Peter Kalangula was born at
Federal Theological Seminary in Alice, South Africa, and then at St Bede's Theological College, Mthatha
.
He was ordained as a deacon in the
Church of England in South Africa
, and Kalangula was ordained a priest in the CESA in 1979.
In 1973 he was nominated to the Ovambo Legislative Council. He was a member of the Ovambo delegation to the
1978 elections, becoming a DTA member of the first National Assembly 1979–1983. He tried to persuade the DTA to form a single party, and when it failed to do so he left to form Christian Democratic Action for Social Justice
(CDA).
In the 1980s he was allegedly the victim of an attempted poisoning by South Africa's notorious Civil Cooperation Bureau.[citation needed]
Kalangula died on 20 February 2008 of kidney failure.[3][4]
Sources
- Pütz, Joachim; von Egidy, Heidi; Caplan, Perri (1990). Namibia handbook and political who's who. Windhoek: Magus. ISBN 0-620-14172-7.
References
- ^ "Bishop Kalangula Dies". www.reachnamibia.org. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
- ^ Cameron, Brian (2017). A Candle Still Burns in Africa: The Story of the Church of England in South Africa (Now Operating as The Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church in South Africa - REACH SA) From 1989 to 2015. REACH SA.
- ^ Peter Kalangula's funeral tomorrow, The Namibian, 29 February 2008
- Die Republikein(in Afrikaans). 3 March 2008.
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