Libertina Inaviposa Amathila (née Appolus, born 10 December 1940)[1] is a Namibian physician and politician.

Under the SWAPO Nationhood Programme, she received a scholarship to study medicine in Poland and graduated from the Warsaw Medical Academy in 1969, becoming Namibia's first female doctor.

She also enrolled in a financial course for non-financial managers at Colombia University, US (1993); Advanced Executive Programme at UNISA, South Africa (1992); Diploma, Epidemiology and French in Bamako, Mali, (1980 – 1983); Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK (1977 – 1978); Postgraduate diploma in Nutrition at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK (1972); M.B.Ch.B., and Swedish in Sweden (1975); M.B.

[5] She received the tenth highest number of votes—363—in the election to the central committee of SWAPO at the party's August 2002 congress.

[7] Amathila received the Ongulumbashe Medal for Bravery and Long Service in 1987,[1] and she was the 1991 recipient of the Nansen Refugee Award.