Mike Rapuikua Venaani (born 13 September 1950) is a Namibian politician and farmer who has represented the Popular Democratic Movement in the National Assembly of Namibia since June 2022.
Venaani was born on 13 September 1950 in Okatjoruu, South West Africa.
[4] Charmaine Tjirare and Hidipo Hamata, who were removed from the party list as well, subsequently approached the Electoral Court to have the amended list be declared invalid and for them to be sworn in as MPs; the court ruled in their favour on 13 July 2020, ruling that political parties cannot amend their candidate lists after the election and before the candidates are sworn in as members of the National Assembly.
The court ordered the six PDM MPs, who were added on the amended list, to vacate their seats in the National Assembly immediately in order for Venaani and the five other PDM members who were duly elected at the election to be sworn in.
[6][7] In March 2023, it was revealed that Venaani and the five other MPs wrote a letter to the secretary of National Assembly Lydia Kandetu on 14 February 2023 demanding that they receive back pay from the National Assembly backdated to 20 March 2020, when the current National Assembly was convened, as well as pension-related proceeds which were deducted from their predecessors.