Sacky Shanghala

Shanghala was born on 13 June 1977 in Outapi in former Ovamboland. He is the son of retired ELCIN bishop Josephat Shanghala. His mother Ndamona was a nurse at Oshakati State Hospital; she died in the 1988 Oshakati bomb blast. Before completing his high school education at the Oshigambo High School, he got his basic education at International Primary School in Ongwediva. He studied at University of Namibia, where he graduated with B Juris and LLB degrees in 1998 and 2000 respectively. ==Business career==

In 2004 Shanghala and two partners trading as Hanganeni Investment Holdings won a government contract to supply fuel to National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (NAMCOR), Namibia's national oil company. In 2021 The Namibian estimated that the deal got them 100 million N$ in private wealth. Until at least 2007, Shanghala was working as a lawyer for the Namibian government despite being on its payroll through his position in the Ministry of Justice. After being appointed Attorney General, Shanghala "hit the ground running, and got busy working on reforming laws – mostly for his benefit." ==Political career==

Shanghala is a member of the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party. In 1997 while on an internship at the Namibia Non-Governmental Organisation Forum (Nangof), Shanghala met Hage Geingob, then Prime Minister of Namibia. Geingob hired him as special assistant shortly thereafter. He served in that position until late 2001. and was appointed Attorney General in the same year. Fishrot scandal In November 2019 he was forced to resign his ministerial post over allegations that he took bribes in exchange for providing fishing quotas to the Icelandic fishing company Samherji, In December 2019 he was removed from the 6th National Assembly and from SWAPO's parliament list for the 7th National Assembly, for which the election had just concluded. He had been placed 53rd on the SWAPO party list of parliamentary candidates, which would have guaranteed his seat in parliament because SWAPO ended up winning 63 seats in 2019. Part of The Fishrot Six, he and former fisheries minister Bernhardt Esau were arrested in late November 2019. Already in jail for over 5 months, Shanghala, like Esau, was removed from SWAPO's politburo, one of the party's top decision-making structures, in April 2021, after absenting himself "from three consecutive meetings". ==References==