Royal /Ui/o/oo

Royal Johan Kxao /Ui/o/oo (born 30 September 1966) is a Namibian politician who is serving in the Cabinet of Namibia as Deputy Minister of Veteran Affairs and Marginalised People since March 2015. He was a member of Parliament as a SWAPO backbencher between 2000 and 2005, and after that a special advisor in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. /Ui/o/oo grew up in Botswana. He finished his matric at NamCOL and holds a certificate in Linguistic Studies in African Languages. As of 2016 he is enrolled at Unisa for a law degree. /Ui/o/oo is an ethnic San from Tsumkwe's Juǀ'hoan-speaking community, for which he is also a senior traditional officer. At the time he became a parliamentarian in 2000, he was the youngest ever SWAPO MP. He also was the first and only San to serve in Parliament.