{{Short description|Namibian politician (1953–2021)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = {{small|The Honourable}} | image = Marco Hausiku (cropped).jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Hausiku in 2013 | name = Marco Hausiku | office = Deputy secretary-general of SWAPO | term_start = 26 November 2017 | term_end = 26 August 2021 | prime_minister = Saara Kuugongelwa | president = Hage Geingob | predecessor = Laura McLeod-Katjirua | successor = | office1 = Deputy-Prime Minister of Namibia | term_start1 = 21 March 2010 | term_end1 = 21 March 2015 | prime_minister1 = Nahas Angula<br />Hage Geingob | president1 = Hifikepunye Pohamba | predecessor1 = Libertina Amathila | successor1 = Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah | office2 = Minister of Foreign Affairs | president2 = Sam Nujoma<br />Hifikepunye Pohamba | prime_minister2 = Theo-Ben Gurirab<br />Nahas Angula | term_start2 = 27 May 2004 | term_end2 = 21 March 2010 | predecessor2 = Hidipo Hamutenya | successor2 = Utoni Nujoma | office3 = Minister of Labour | president3 = Sam Nujoma | prime_minister3 = Theo-Ben Gurirab | term_start3 = 27 August 2002 | term_end3 = 27 May 2004 | predecessor3 = Andimba Toivo ya Toivo | successor3 = Marlene Mungunda | office4 = Minister of Prisons and Correctional Services | president4 = Sam Nujoma | prime_minister4 = Hage Geingob | term_start4 = 1995 | term_end4 = 27 August 2002 | predecessor4 = ''position established'' | successor4 = Andimba Toivo ya Toivo | office5 = Minister of Works, Transport and Communication | president5 = Sam Nujoma | prime_minister5 = Hage Geingob | term_start5 = 1992 | term_end5 = 1995 | predecessor5 = Richard Kapelwa Kabajani | successor5 = Hampie Plichta | office6 = Minister of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation | president6 = Sam Nujoma | prime_minister6 = Hage Geingob | term_start6 = 21 March 1990 | term_end6 = 1992 | predecessor6 = ''position established'' | successor6 = Richard Kapelwa Kabajani | birth_date = {{birth date|1953|11|25|df=y}} | birth_place = Kapako, Okavango Region, South West Africa | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|8|26|1953|11|25|df=y}} | death_place = | party = SWAPO | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = }}
'''Marco Mukoso Hausiku''' (25 November 1953 – 26 August 2021) was a Namibian politician who was Deputy-Prime Minister of Namibia from 2010 to 2015.<ref name="formerdpm">{{cite web |title=Former Deputy Prime Ministers |url=https://154.0.193.130/web/opm/former-deputy-prime-ministers |publisher=OPM - Office of the Prime Minister of Namibia |access-date=10 November 2023 |archive-date=6 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206095446/https://154.0.193.130/web/opm/former-deputy-prime-ministers |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Previously, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2004 to 2010. In 2017 he was elected as the deputy secretary general of the Swapo Party at the party's 6th congress.
==Life and career== Hausiku was born on 25 November 1953 in Kapako, Okavango Region (now Kavango West).<ref name=Pro>[https://www.parliament.na/dt_team/hausiku-marco/ Profile at Namibian Parliament website], retrieved 5 July 2022. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030914135642/http://www.parliament.gov.na/ims/pub/biodatadetail.asp?e=59&i=132 |date=14 September 2003 }}.</ref> Immediately prior to independence, Hausiku was a SWAPO delegate to the Constituent Assembly which was in place from November 1989 to March 1990,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030820180107/http://www.parliament.gov.na/ims/pub/getindivs.asp?e=65&en=Constituent+Assembly+of+Namibia+November+1989+-+March+1990 List of members of the Constituent Assembly], parliament.gov.na.</ref> and since 1990 he has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia. He served as Minister of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation from 1990 to 1992, as Minister of Works, Transport and Communication from 1992 to March 1995 and as Minister of Prisons and Correctional Services from March 1995 to August 2002.<ref name=Pro/><ref name=DB>[http://people.africadatabase.org/en/person/5209.html Entry at the Contemporary Africa Database] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061004115251/http://people.africadatabase.org/en/person/5209.html |date=4 October 2006 }}.</ref> He was appointed as Minister of Labour on 27 August 2002,<ref name=Pro/><ref>"Aug 2002 - Namibia", ''Keesing's Record of World Events'', volume 48, August 2002, Namibia, page 44,924.</ref> and after nearly two years in that position he was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs by president Sam Nujoma on 27 May 2004. This appointment followed Nujoma's dismissal of the previous foreign minister, Hidipo Hamutenya, in the midst of a struggle within SWAPO regarding the nomination of a presidential candidate.<ref>[http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/nujoma-appoints-new-foreign-minister-1.213713#.Ur2tHfsSNzA "Nujoma appoints new foreign minister"], Agence France-Presse, 27 May 2004.</ref>
Hausiku received the 16th highest number of votes, 345, in the election to the central committee of SWAPO at the party's August 2002 congress.<ref>[https://www.namibian.com.na/archive19982004/2002/August/news/027EBA9751.html "The ruling party's new Central Committee"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030309015526/http://www.namibian.com.na/2002/august/news/027EBA9751.html |date=9 March 2003 }}, ''The Namibian'', 27 August 2002.</ref> He was SWAPO's Secretary for External Relations as of January 2008.<ref>Christof Maletsky, [https://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?id=43699&page=archive-read "Surprise changes in Swapo"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20070815041710/http://www.namibian.com.na/2008/January/national/08E24ABAC0.html |date=15 August 2007 }}, ''The Namibian'', 29 January 2008.</ref>
Amidst a push for new faces in the National Assembly, Hausiku opted not to seek a spot on the SWAPO list for the 2014 election.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140905012953/http://www.newera.com.na/2014/09/02/spyl-hails-swapo-list/ "SPYL hails Swapo list"]}}, ''New Era'', 2 September 2014.</ref> After leaving parliament, he was designated as rector of the Swapo Party School, which was launched in May 2016. He was intended to serve as rector in an interim capacity for the school's first year.<ref>Tuyeimo Haidula, [http://www.namibian.com.na/151114/archive-read/Hausiku-back-in-limelight--former-deputy-prime-minister-appointed-interim-Swapo-school-rector "Hausiku back in limelight ... former deputy prime minister appointed interim Swapo school rector"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315182654/http://www.namibian.com.na/151114/archive-read/Hausiku-back-in-limelight--former-deputy-prime-minister-appointed-interim-Swapo-school-rector |date=15 March 2017 }}, ''The Namibian'', 24 May 2016, p.1</ref><ref>[https://neweralive.na/posts/dont-doubt-swapo-school-geingob "Don’t doubt Swapo School – Geingob"], ''New Era'', 24 May 2016.</ref>
==Death== Hausiku died on 26 August 2021 at the age of 68, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia,<ref>{{cite news | title=Swapo deputy SG Hausiku dies | last=Iikela | first=Sakeus | newspaper=The Namibian | url=https://www.namibian.com.na/6212798/archive-read/Swapo-deputy-SG-Hausiku-dies | date=26 August 2021 | access-date=6 July 2022 | archive-date=6 July 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706094315/https://www.namibian.com.na/6212798/archive-read/Swapo-deputy-SG-Hausiku-dies | url-status=dead }}</ref> from post-COVID-19 complications.<ref>{{cite news | title=Namibia mourns Marco Hausiku | last=Muyamba | first=John | newspaper=New Era | url=https://neweralive.na/posts/namibia-mourns-marco-hausiku | date=30 August 2021}}</ref> He was buried at Heroes' Acre outside Windhoek on 11 September.<ref>{{cite news | title=I don't want to claim Swapo members - Venaani | last=Iikela | first=Sakeus | newspaper=The Namibian | url=https://www.namibian.com.na/6213226/archive-read/I-dont-want-to-claim-Swapo-members---Venaani | date=10 September 2021 | access-date=6 July 2022 | archive-date=6 July 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706094408/https://www.namibian.com.na/6213226/archive-read/I-dont-want-to-claim-Swapo-members---Venaani | url-status=dead }}</ref>
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