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{{short description|Third Prime Minister of Namibia}}
{{Infobox officeholder
{{Use South African English|date=March 2020}}
|name = Nahas Angula
{{Infobox officeholder
|image = Nahas Angula.jpg
| name = Nahas Angula
|office = [[Prime Minister of Namibia]]
| image = Nahas Angula.jpg
|president = [[Hifikepunye Pohamba]]
| office = [[Ministry of Defence (Namibia)|Minister of Defence]]
|term_start = 21 March 2005
| president = [[Hifikepunye Pohamba]]
|term_end =
| term_start = 4 December 2012
|predecessor = [[Theo-Ben Gurirab]]
| term_end = 21 March 2015
|successor =
| predecessor = [[Charles Namoloh]]
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|8|22|df=y}}
| successor = [[Penda Ya Ndakolo]]
|birth_place = [[Onyaanya Constituency|Onyaanya]], [[South-West Africa]]<br><small>(now [[Namibia]])</small>
| office1 = 3rd [[Prime Minister of Namibia]]
|death_date =
| deputy1 = [[Libertina Amathila]]<br>[[Marco Hausiku]]
|death_place =
|party president1 = [[SWAPO|Southwest African People'sHifikepunye OrganisationPohamba]]
|spouse term_start1 = Katrina21 TangeniMarch Namalenga2005
| term_end1 = 4 December 2012
|children = 2
| predecessor1 = [[Theo-Ben Gurirab]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Zambia]]<br>[[Columbia University]]<br>[[University of Manchester]]
| successor1 = [[Hage Geingob]]
| office2 = [[Ministry of Higher Education (Namibia)|Minister of Higher Education]]
| president2 = [[Sam Nujoma]]
| term_start2 = 21 March 1995
| term_end2 = 21 March 2005
| predecessor2 = ''position established''
| successor2 = ''position abolished''
| office3 = [[Ministry of Education (Namibia)|Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport]]
| president3 = [[Sam Nujoma]]
| term_start3 = 21 March 1990
| term_end3 = 21 March 1995
| predecessor3 = ''position established''
| successor3 = [[John Mutorwa]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|8|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Onyaanya Constituency]], [[South-West Africa]] {{small|(now [[Namibia]])}}
| death_date =
| death_place =
| nationality = Namibian
| party = [[SWAPO]]
| spouse = Katrina Tangeni Namalenga
| children = 2
| alma_mater = [[University of Zambia]]<br>[[Teachers College, Columbia University|Columbia University]]<br>[[University of Manchester]]
| blank1 = Religion
| data1 = [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia|Lutheranism]]
| caption = Angula in 2005
}}
'''Nahas Gideon Angula''' (born 22 August 1943<ref name=Pro>[http://www.parliament.gov.na/ims/pub/biodatadetail.asp?e=66&i=360 Profile on Namibian parliament website].</ref><ref name=KD>[http://www.klausdierks.com/Biographies/Biographies_A.htm Biographies of Namibian Personalities], klausdierks.com.</ref>) is the current [[Prime Minister]] of [[Namibia]]. He entered into office on March 21, 2005, when his appointment was announced by new president [[Hifikepunye Pohamba]] during the latter's inauguration.<ref name=New>[http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1111473543130B255 "Namibia's new president takes office"], AFP (''IOL''), March 22, 2005.</ref> Angula received a master's degree in education from [[Columbia University]].<ref>[http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,109045.html]</ref>
 
'''Nahas Gideon Angula''' (born 22 August 1943)<ref name=Pro>[http://www.parliament.gov.na/ims/pub/biodatadetail.asp?e=66&i=360 Profile on Namibian parliament website].{{dead link|date=July 2016}}</ref><ref name=KD>{{Cite web | title=Biographies of Namibian Personalities | last=Dierks | first=Klaus | authorlink=Klaus Dierks | website=klausdierks.com | url=http://www.klausdierks.com/Biographies/Biographies_A.htm | accessdate=10 April 2022}}</ref> is a [[Namibia]]n politician who served as the third [[Prime Minister of Namibia]] from 21 March 2005 to 4 December 2012. He was succeeded by [[Hage Geingob]] in a cabinet reshuffle after the 2012 SWAPO Party congress. He subsequently served as [[Ministry of Defence (Namibia)|Minister of Defence]] from 2012 to 2015.
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.<ref name=Pro/> Immediately prior to independence, Angula was a SWAPO member of the Constituent Assembly, which was in place from November 1989 to March 1990.<ref>[http://www.parliament.gov.na/ims/pub/getindivs.asp?e=65&en=Constituent%20Assembly%20of%20Namibia%20November%201989%20-%20March%201990 List of members of the Constituent Assembly], parliament.gov.na.</ref> He has been a member of the [[National Assembly of Namibia|National Assembly]] since 1990, and he was Minister of Education, Sport, and Culture from 1990 to 1995 and Minister of Higher Education from 1995<ref name=Pro/><ref name=KD/> until 2005.
 
Angula is a member of the [[South West Africa People's Organization]] (SWAPO). He was [[Ministry of Education (Namibia)|Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport]] from 1990 to 1995 and [[Ministry of Higher Education (Namibia)|Minister of Higher Education]] from 1995 to 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.<ref>[http://www.namibian.com.na/2002/august/news/027EBA9751.html "The ruling party's new Central Committee"], ''The Namibian'', August 27, 2002.</ref> He was one of three candidates who sought SWAPO's nomination as its presidential candidate in May 2004.<ref>[http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1085747221492B255 "Meet the men who are vying for Nujoma's job"], Reuters (''IOL''), May 28, 2004.</ref> He placed third in the first round, receiving 137 votes, while 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.<ref>Petros Kuteeue, [http://www.namibian.com.na/2004/June/national/044570A872.html "Pohamba the winner"], ''The Namibian'', May 31, 2004.</ref> He is a member of the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia|Lutheran church]], as has been his family for generations.<ref>http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FMOA%2FMOA42_04%2FS0022278X04000552a.pdf&code=db46a1072b5ed5c5e051a6bcc1b17fc3</ref>
 
==Political career==
[[File:Hon. Nahas Angula.jpg|thumb|Honorable Nahas Angula conducting a reading session during Readathon Week with school children at Oniipa Primary School in Oshikoto Region, 25 September 2023]]
Angula was born in Onyaanya, [[Oshikoto Region]]. He was in exile from [[Namibia]] from 1965 to 1989. 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.<ref name=Pro/> Immediately before independence, Angula was a SWAPO member of the [[Constituent Assembly of Namibia]], which was in place from November 1989 to March 1990.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030820180107/http://www.parliament.gov.na/ims/pub/getindivs.asp?e=65&en=Constituent+Assembly+of+Namibia+November+1989+-+March+1990 List of members of the Constituent Assembly], parliament.gov.na.</ref>
 
Angula became a member of the [[National Assembly of Namibia|National Assembly]] in 1990. He was [[Ministry of Education (Namibia)|Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport]] from 1990 to 1995 and [[Ministry of Higher Education (Namibia)|Minister of Higher Education]] from 1995<ref name=Pro/><ref name=KD/> to 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.<ref>[http://www.namibian.com.na/2002/august/news/027EBA9751.html "The ruling party's new Central Committee"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030309015526/http://www.namibian.com.na/2002/august/news/027EBA9751.html |date=2003-03-09 }}, ''The Namibian'', August 27, 2002.</ref> He was one of three candidates who sought SWAPO's nomination as its presidential candidate in May 2004.<ref>[http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1085747221492B255 "Meet the men who are vying for Nujoma's job"], Reuters, May 28, 2004.</ref> 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.<ref>Petros Kuteeue, [http://www.namibian.com.na/2004/June/national/044570A872.html "Pohamba the winner"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616235005/http://www.namibian.com.na/2004/June/national/044570A872.html |date=2004-06-16 }}, ''The Namibian'', May 31, 2004.</ref>
 
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]].<ref name=New>[http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1111473543130B255 "Namibia's new president takes office"], AFP, March 22, 2005.</ref>
 
After [[Hage Geingob]] was re-elected as SWAPO vice-president on 2 December 2012, and thus confirmed as SWAPO's 2014 presidential candidate, Pohamba appointed Geingob to replace Angula as prime minister on 4 December 2012. Angula was instead appointed [[Ministry of Defence (Namibia)|Minister of Defence]].<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/namibia-president-idUSL5E8N478G20121204 "Namibia leader taps trade minister as likely successor"], Reuters, 4 December 2012.</ref><ref>Selma Shipanga and Shinovene Immanuel, [http://www.namibian.com.na/news/full-story/archive/2012/december/article/transition-team-picked/ "Transition team picked"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206222431/http://www.namibian.com.na/news/full-story/archive/2012/december/article/transition-team-picked/ |date=2012-12-06 }}, ''The Namibian'', 5 December 2012.</ref>
 
Amidst a push for new faces in the National Assembly, Angula opted not to seek a spot on the SWAPO list for the 2014 election.<ref>[http://www.newera.com.na/2014/09/02/spyl-hails-swapo-list/ "SPYL hails Swapo list"], ''New Era'', 2 September 2014.</ref>
 
==Education and personal life==
Angula received a master's degree in education from [[Columbia University]] in 1978. He never completed his Ph.D. at the [[Teachers College, Columbia University|Teachers College]] as SWAPO instructed him to return to Namibia to become the Minister of Education.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-06-09 |title=Namibia's Great Educator |url=https://www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/2009/july/namibias-great-educator/ |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=Teachers College - Columbia University |language=en}}</ref> He is a member of the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia|Lutheran church]],<ref>{{cite web | title=African leader links uranium riches with responsibility for peace | publisher=[[World Council of Churches]] | url=https://www.oikoumene.org/news/african-leader-links-uranium-riches-with-responsibility-for-peace | date=23 April 2009}}</ref> as has been his family for generations.
 
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