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Jerry Ekandjo (born 17 March 1947〔(Namibian parliament profile on Ekandjo ).〕) is a Namibian politician who has served in the government of Namibia as Minister of Youth and Sport since 2012. Previously he was Deputy Minister of Local Government and Housing from 1990 to 1995, Minister of Home Affairs from 1995 to 2005, Minister of Lands and Resettlement from 2005 to 2008, and Minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development from 2008 to 2012. ==Political career== Ekandjo was born in Windhoek, South-West Africa. He was a member of the SWAPO Party Youth League from 1969 to 1973〔 and served as Chairman of its Windhoek Branch. In August 1973 he was arrested, and in November 1973 he was put on trial for incitement of violence. He was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison, which he spent on Robben Island in South Africa.〔(Ekandjo profile ) at klausdierks.com.〕 Following his release in 1981, he was a teacher from 1982 to 1987, and in 1989, he was the deputy head of SWAPO voter registration.〔 Immediately prior to independence, he was a SWAPO member of the Constituent Assembly, which was in place from November 1989 to March 1990,〔〔(List of members of the Constituent Assembly ), parliament.gov.na.〕 and since independence in 1990 he has served as a member of the National Assembly of Namibia. He also became Deputy Minister of Local Government and Housing in 1990, serving in that position until 1995. He was Deputy Minister of Home Affairs from March 1995 until being promoted to the post of Minister of Home Affairs in September 1995. After nearly ten years as Minister of Home Affairs, Ekandjo was moved to the post of Minister of Lands and Resettlement on March 21, 2005.〔 He received the highest number of votes, 395 (tied with Nahas Angula), in the election to the Central Committee of SWAPO at the party's August 2002 congress.〔("The ruling party's new Central Committee" ), ''The Namibian'', August 27, 2002.〕 It was reported that at the time of the November 2007 SWAPO congress, some in the party wanted Ekandjo to become the party's Vice-President, although at the congress Hage Geingob was elected to the post without opposition. Ekandjo is widely considered to be a hardliner in the party.〔Gwen Lister, ("Political Perspective" ) , ''The Namibian'', December 14, 2007.〕 He received the highest number of votes in the election for the SWAPO Central Committee at the November 2007 congress.〔Christof Maletsky, ("Swapo big names dropped" ), ''The Namibian'', December 3, 2007.〕 On January 27 2008, he was elected as SWAPO's Secretary for Information and Publicity at a Central Committee meeting, a move that was considered surprising given Ekandjo's reputation for having a harsh attitude toward the media.〔Christof Maletsky, ("Surprise changes in Swapo" ) , ''The Namibian'', January 29, 2008.〕 Ekandjo was moved from his post as Minister of Lands and Resettlement to that of Minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development in a Cabinet reshuffle on 8 April 2008.〔Kuvee Kangueehi, ("Cabinet Shake Up" ), ''New Era'', April 9, 2008.〕 At SWAPO's 2012 party congress, Ekandjo stood as a candidate for SWAPO Vice-President, but he was defeated by Hage Geingob in the vote held on 2 December 2012. Geingob received 312 votes from the delegates, while Ekandjo received 220 votes and Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana received 64 votes.〔Shinovene Immanuel and Selma Shipanga, ("Moderates prevail" ) , ''The Namibian'', 3 December 2012.〕 In the wake of the congress, Ekandjo was moved to the post of Minister of Youth and Sport as part of a Cabinet reshuffle on 4 December 2012.〔("Namibia leader taps trade minister as likely successor" ), Reuters, 4 December 2012.〕〔Selma Shipanga and Shinovene Immanuel, ("Transition team picked" ) , ''The Namibian'', 5 December 2012.〕 In late August 2014, when SWAPO chose its list of parliamentary candidates for the November 2014 general election, Ekandjo only managed to obtain the 81st spot on the list, a poor performance that made it seem unlikely that he would be elected to the National Assembly.〔("Swapo undergoes massive transition... Complete overhaul in parliamentary ranks" ), ''New Era'', 1 September 2014.〕 Although he failed to make it into parliament in the election, he was subsequently chosen by President Hage Geingob as one of his eight presidential appointees to the National Assembly.〔Mathias Haufiku, ("Who are the presidential appointees?" ), ''New Era'', 3 February 2015.〕 Geingob also retained Ekandjo as Minister of Sport, Youth and National Service when he named his cabinet in March 2015.〔("Geingob announces Cabinet" ), ''The Namibian'', 20 March 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jerry Ekandjo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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