Iyambo was a member of both the central committee and political bureau of the SWAPO Party and the chairperson of its think tank.

In 1985, he left for the United Kingdom, where he took an access course in food studies at South London College.

Iyambo was a member of both the central committee and political bureau of the SWAPO Party and the chairperson of its think tank.

[4] In 1995 he became a member of parliament and was appointed as deputy minister of the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources for a period of two years.

Iyambo was a member of the International Task Force responsible for the fight of global Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU).

He died from a stroke on his 52nd birthday while on business travel in London, United Kingdom, on 2 February 2013.