Pendukeni "Penny" Iivula-Ithana (born 11 October 1952) is a Namibian politician who served as the secretary general of SWAPO, Namibia's ruling party, from 2007 to 2012.

After criticising the sitting president Hage Geingob and other senior political leaders in November 2017 she was dismissed from cabinet.

[9] She was elected as secretary general of SWAPO at the party's November 2007 congress, becoming the first woman to hold that position.

[10] Iivula-Ithana was one possible contender for SWAPO's presidential candidacy, a position determined at the end of the 2012 party congress.

[12] Although she failed to make it into parliament in the election, she was subsequently chosen by President Hage Geingob as one of his eight presidential appointees to the National Assembly.

For the 2017 SWAPO electoral congress, Iivula-Ithana campaigned against President Geingob, calling the leadership of the government and ruling party "weak".

It was reported that there were internal disagreements in the SWAPO Party regarding the issue of Iivula-Ithana's multiple jobs, with President Pohamba wanting to remove Iivula-Ithana from her cabinet posts while former President Sam Nujoma's supporters wanted her to retain all posts and opposed implementing the resolution.