Nahas Angula

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Nahas Angula : biography

August 22, 1943 –

Nahas Gideon Angula (born 22 August 1943., klausdierks.com.) is a Namibian politician who was Prime Minister of Namibia from 2005 to 2012. He has been Minister of Defense since 2012.

Education and personal life

Angula received a master’s degree in education from Columbia University. He is a member of the Lutheran church, as has been his family for generations.http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FMOA%2FMOA42_04%2FS0022278X04000552a.pdf&code=db46a1072b5ed5c5e051a6bcc1b17fc3

Political career

Angula was born in Onyaanya, Oshikoto Region. He was in exile from Namibia from 1965 to 1989, and during this time he worked for Radio Zambia from 1973 to 1976 and for the United Nations as a civil servant from 1976 to 1980 before becoming a SWAPO organizer in 1980. He was in charge of SWAPO voter registration in 1989. Immediately prior to independence, Angula was a SWAPO member of the Constituent Assembly, which was in place from November 1989 to March 1990., parliament.gov.na. He has been a member of the National Assembly since 1990, and he was Minister of Education, Sport, and Culture from 1990 to 1995 and Minister of Higher Education from 1995 until 2005.

Angula received the highest number of votes, 395 (tied with Jerry Ekandjo), in the election to the Central Committee of SWAPO at the party’s August 2002 congress., The Namibian, August 27, 2002. He was one of three candidates who sought SWAPO’s nomination as its presidential candidate in May 2004., Reuters (IOL), May 28, 2004. He placed third in the first round, receiving 137 votes, while Hifikepunye Pohamba received 213 and Hidipo Hamutenya received 166, and he was therefore excluded from the second round. Those who supported Angula backed Pohamba almost without exception in the second round of voting, and Pohamba was victorious.Petros Kuteeue, , The Namibian, May 31, 2004.

On March 21, 2005, when Pohamba was sworn in as President of Namibia, he announced that he was appointing Angula as Prime Minister of Namibia., AFP (IOL), March 22, 2005.

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