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Kahatjipara Barbara (born 1975) is a Namibian fashion model, economics teacher and beauty pageant titleholder.^{[citation needed]}

She won Miss Namibia 1993 and the Miss Universe Congeniality 1994 award as part of the Miss Universe 1994.

Barbara Kahatjipara completed also a BA degree in international politics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and an MBA in "International Marketing" at the Fachhochschule Reutlingen in Germany^[1] and about 2008 she has been a research assistant at the economics institute of the Polytechnic of Namibia in Windhoek.^[1] In 2020, she worked as an actress.^[2]

In the Namibian city Karibib, a street was named after her.^[3][4]