[1] Swartbooi was governor of ǁKaras Region before being appointed as Namibia's deputy Minister of Land Reform in 2015 by the late President Dr. Hage Geingob, a position he subsequently was forced to resign from in January 2017.

Swartbooi worked as a prosecutor in Tsumeb and Khorixas and served as a special assistant at the office of the Prime Minister.

[4] Swartbooi obtained a PG Diploma in Land and Agrarian Reform from the University of Western Cape.

[5] In 2017, after being fired by the late president Hage Geingob from his ministerial position, Swartbooi formed the Landless People's Movement (LPM), which is a new political party that aims to bring about change in the country through equitable land redistribution.

[5] In 2024, while the respective local authorities were under LPM government, streets were renamed after Swartbooi in Keetmanshoop, Mariental and Oranjemund.