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President
  
Elijah Ngurare

Occupation
  
Youth Activist

Preceded by
  
Paulus Kapia

Name
  
Job Amupanda


Nationality
  
Namibian

Role
  
Namibian Politician

Residence
  
Windhoek

Political party
  
SWAPO

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Born
  
28 August 1987 (age 36) Omaalala, Oshana Region (
1987-08-28
)

Alma mater
  
University of Namibia Stellenbosch University

Education
  
University of Namibia, Stellenbosch University

Similar People
  
Elijah Ngurare, Nangolo Mbumba, Hage Geingob, Sam Nujoma, Abraham Iyambo

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Job Shipululo Amupanda is a Namibian politician who, before his suspension and resignation in 2014, served as a spokesperson for the SWAPO Party Youth League and as Secretary for Information, Publicity and Mobilisation since 2012. He is a co-founder of the Affirmative Repositioning movement.

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Education and career

Amupanda studied at the University of Namibia where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Political Science, and served as the President of the Students' Council (among other portfolios) where he gained popularity during his tenure. He completed his Masters with the Stellenbosch University, South Africa dedicating his degree to the children of Namibia especially those who went to school without shoes. He is currently defending his Philosophy degree (PhD). Amupanda was one of the few radical youths in Swapo and is very outspoken on youth matters.

He hold political admiration for Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe and Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a South African ultra-left party.

Amupanda under the banner of Affirmative Repositioning mobilised thousands of young people who turned up at the City of Windhoek's head office in Windhoek and submitted over 14,000 land application forms. Amupanda resigned his position as spokesperson for the SWAPO Party Youth League before being subsequently expelled from SWAPO in November 2014 after being involved in a municipal land grab in response to reports of corruption by the Windhoek municipality. He successfully challenged his expulsion from the party in court and was reinstated as a party member in May 2016.

References

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