Ida Jimmy

Ida Jimmy ǃHa-Eiros (1945–2024) was a Namibian independence activist and SWAPO politician.

Jimmy served a 5 months, 3 weeks prison sentence in Gobabis in 1978 and was then placed under house arrest in Lüderitz for one year.

[1] She gave birth in prison to her son Richard Konjeleni who initially was not allowed to be taken out, but was then taken to Jimmy's mother.

President Nangolo Mbumba ordered three days of national mourning in her honour for 19–21 April 2024[3] and directed that she receives a Hero's funeral.

[4] She was buried next to her husband Werner !Ha-Eirob on 20 April 2024 at the cemetery of farm Snip River, in the Bethanie district in Berseba Constituency (ǁKaras Region).