Vekuii Reinhard Rukoro (11 November 1954 – 18 June 2021) was a Namibian lawyer, businessman, and Paramount Chief of the Herero people.
In 1980 he started tertiary education and obtained an LLB (Honours) degree from the University of Warwick (Coventry, England) in 1983, and an LLM degree from the Washington College of Law (Washington, D.C., United States) in 1987.
[2] Rukoro joined the South West Africa National Union (SWANU) in 1975 and became its secretary-general but left with a group of dissidents in 1978 to form the South West Africa National Union Progressives (SWANU-P).
[5] After the June 2014 death of Kuaima Riruako left the position of the Paramount Chieftaincy of the OvaHerero people vacant, Fanuel Tumbee Tjombe acted for a short time.
[6] He died on 18 June 2021 at the age of 66 from the consequences of an infection with COVID-19 in Windhoek during the COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia.