Elma Jane Dienda (born 16 November 1964 in Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa) is a Namibian politician and teacher. Currently a member Democratic Turnhalle Alliance which she joined four years after her resignation from the CoD, Dienda was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia from taking CoD's final spot in 2004 until CoD did not receive enough votes for her re-election in 2009. She is of South African and Malawian descent.
Dienda is a teacher by profession, having earned an education diploma at the Windhoek College of Education and worked at Eldorado High School in Khomasdal. She received training as a counselor at Catholic AIDS Action.
Dienda led a drive in the National Assembly which called for the distribution of condoms to prison inmates as a means of preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. Dienda and other opposition politicians were shouted down, with Utoni Nujoma and Petrus Iilonga vocally opposing the idea. Several SWAPO members denied that sexual activities ever occurred in prisons.
Cuando me enamoro no quiero perder
mi libertad y mi manera de ser
si alguna vez yo me rindo ante el amor y el placer
es porque me siento vivo cuando me enamoro.
Alma de soltero, alma de marinero
y en cada puerto quiero un amor
alma de nadie, alma de nadie
alma de amante, de soñador
alma errante de sol a sol.
Cuando me enamoro juego a ser niño
pero nunca juego con el cariño
cuando termina el amor aún queda el amigo
yo voy de flor en flor, de nido en nido.
Alma de soltero, alma de marinero
y en cada puerto quiero un amor
alma de nadie, alma de nadie
alma de amante, de soñador
alma errante de sol a sol.
Alma de soltero, alma de marinero
y en cada puerto quiero un amor
alma de nadie, alma de nadie
alma de amante, de soñador
alma errante de sol a sol.
Alma de nadie, de marinero
alma de errante, alma de soltero
alma de nadie…
[Camilo Blanes]
© 1975