The Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) is a trade union in Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

 affiliated with the National Union of Namibian Workers (Nunw). Nafau's organizational strongholds include the fishing industries around Walvis Bay

Walvis Bay

Walvis Bay , is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies...

 and Lüderitz

Lüderitz

Lüderitz is a harbour town in south-west Namibia, lying on one of the least hospitable coasts in Africa. It is a port developed around Robert Harbour and Shark Island.- Overview :...

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History

Nafau was founded on 20 September 1986. Originally led by recently released political prisoner John Pandeni

John Pandeni

John Alphons Pandeni was a Namibian politician and trade unionist. A member of SWAPO, Pandeni was Minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development at the time of his death....

, the Union was the first NUNW-affiliated industrial union in Namibia.