Toivo Ndjebela


Toivo Ndjebela is a Namibian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the Namibian Sun daily. He also worked as managing editor of the state-owned New Era newspaper.

Education

Ndjebela holds a bachelor's degree in media studies from the University of Namibia and a master's degree in foreign reporting from the University of Helsinki. He also obtained a Masters in Development Study and Policy in 2018 from the Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice, University of Cape Town.

Career

He has worked as a deputy news editor at the state-owned newspaper New Era, a reporter at the tabloid newspaper Informanté, and as a senior journalist at the Windhoek Observer. He was appointed as the editor of the Namibian Sun in May 2012. Ndjebela returned to New Era in 2014, and again to the Namibian Sun, as editor-in-chief, in 2019. In 2021, he along with veteran journalist and editor Gwen Lister, was acknowledged as champion of world press freedom.