User:Endola82/sandbox/Ferdinand Shifidi

Ferdinand Ingashipola Shifidi is a Councillor of Endola Constituency in Ohangwena Region. He became a councillor in November 2014.[1][2][3] He served as a principal of Onepandaulo Combined School in Ohangwena Region and retired in May 2010.[4][5] Apart from being a principal, he was also a good mathematics teacher at the same school and was considered as one of the best mathematics teacher in Endola education circuit. He was born on 3 May 1950 in Endola village. Shifidi was detained[6] by the South African apartheid Government in January 1985 and sent to Osire Detention Camp with his comrades. Osire detention camp is situated 110 km south- east of Otjiwarongo and 250 km north-east of the capital city, Windhoek.[7] He was later released in mid 1986.

He is a brother to Immanuel Shifidi a freedom fighter who was assassinated on 30 November 1986 at a SWAPO rally marking the United Nations International Year of Peace. Immanuel Shifidi's assassination happened few months after Ferdinand was released from Osire detention camp.