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Ferdinand Ingashipola Shifidi is a Councillor of Endola Constituency in Ohangwena Region. He became a councillor in November 2014. He served as a principal of Onepandaulo Combined School in Ohangwena Region and retired in May 2010. 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 and Ohangwena region at large. He was born on 3 May 1950 in Endola village. Shifidi was detained 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. 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.