A member of the SWAPO party, she served as Minister of Education, Arts and Culture from 21 March 2015 to 9 July 2019, resigning a day after being convicted of corruption.

[1] After winning the Mariental Rural constituency in the 2004 local elections for the SWAPO party, she was appointed governor of Hardap Region, a position she held until 2015.

[1] Hanse-Himarwa was one of the eight presidential appointees to the 6th National Assembly of Namibia to the role of non-voting member of the body.

[2] President Hage Geingob appointed her minister of Education, Arts and Culture on 21 March 2015.

Judge Christie Liebenberg at the Windhoek High Court found that she had used her office for self-gratification while she served as governor of Hardap Region to remove listed names on a national housing project in order to favour one of her relatives.