Lempy Lucas (born 7 November 1961 in Eendombe, Omusati Region) is a Namibian politician.[1] A member of the National Assembly since 2000, Lucas is a member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). She has also been the Deputy Foreign Minister of Namibia since replacing Kaire Mbuende in 2004. She had previously been a SWAPO Party Youth League activist.[2]
Lucas joined SWAPO in 1979 and fled shortly thereafter to Angola, where she studied. In 1982, she earned a diploma in Youth Administration from East Germany. She then returned to Angola in the mid-1980s, where she worked as an administrator at the SWAPO Health and Education Centre at Kwanza-Sul. In 1986 she was reassigned to Luanda, where she worked in the SWAPO headquarters until independence in 1989. From 1990 to 2002, Lucas served as an important figure in the SWAPO Party Youth League. In 1997, she joined the SWAPO Central Committee. In 2004, she was appointed to the position of Deputy Foreign Minister. She is now a resident of Ohangwena Region.[3]