Brigadier General Bernard Nkawa was a Namibian military officer whose last appointment was as Defence Attaché to DRC.

He was then deployed to PLAN's Eastern Front covering Zambia and the Zambezi region.

He was then appointed Chief of Staff Rhino Battalion at the north western front in Techipa in 1985.

He was then promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed Commanding Officer from 1998 to 2001, during this period he was deployed to the DRC under Operation Atlantic in the Second Congo War between 1998 and 1999 as a battle group commander in the eastern front.

He retired in 2018 and died in a motor vehicle accident in the Zambezi Region in November 2020.