1. Nahas Gideon Angula was born on 22 August 1943 and is a Namibian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of Namibia from 21 March 2005 to 4 December 2012.
16 Facts About Nahas Angula
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Nahas Angula was succeeded by Hage Geingob in a cabinet reshuffle after the 2012 SWAPO Party congress.
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Nahas Angula subsequently served as Minister of Defence from 2012 to 2015.
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Nahas Angula was Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport from 1990 to 1995 and Minister of Higher Education from 1995 to 2005.
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Nahas Angula was in exile from Namibia from 1965 to 1989.
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Nahas Angula was in charge of SWAPO voter registration in 1989.
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Immediately before independence, Nahas Angula was a SWAPO member of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia, which was in place from November 1989 to March 1990.
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Nahas Angula became a member of the National Assembly in 1990.
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Nahas Angula was Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport from 1990 to 1995 and Minister of Higher Education from 1995 to 2005.
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Nahas Angula received the highest number of votes, 395, in the election to the Central Committee of SWAPO at the party's August 2002 congress.
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Nahas Angula was one of three candidates who sought SWAPO's nomination as its presidential candidate in May 2004.
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Nahas Angula 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.
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Those who supported Nahas Angula backed Pohamba almost without exception in the second round of voting, and Pohamba was victorious.
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Amidst a push for new faces in the National Assembly, Nahas Angula opted not to seek a spot on the SWAPO list for the 2014 election.
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Nahas Angula received a master's degree in education from Columbia University in 1978.
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Nahas Angula is a member of the Lutheran church, as has been his family for generations.