Petrus Iilonga (8 January 1947 – 11 December 2018) was a Namibian politician, trade union leader and a political prisoner in Robben Island.
[2] He had a brief spell of work at the Ondangwa government garage before he left to receive military training in Tanzania and the Soviet Union in 1974.
[2] Iilonga left the department of Environment and Tourism when he was appointed deputy minister of Labour and Social Welfare in 2005.
[5] In a 2008 belated Heroes' Day speech in Keetmanshoop, Iilonga criticized the newly formed opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress for alleged tribalism.
[8] Iilonga resided in Windhoek and was famous for his "Che Guevara-style" beret and frequent phone-ins to Namibian Broadcasting Corporation radio programmes.