Background
Shixwameni was born in Shambyu, the traditional kingdom in the Kavango Region, and he earned a Master"s of Arts degree from the University of Havana in Social Sciences.
Shixwameni was born in Shambyu, the traditional kingdom in the Kavango Region, and he earned a Master"s of Arts degree from the University of Havana in Social Sciences.
He is the leader of Namibia"s All People"s Party. Shixwameni was a student leader of the Namibia National Students Organisation (Nanso) at the dawn of independence and was a SWAPO Youth League leader from 1987 to 1999 and a SWAPO Central Committee member from 1992 to 1997. Shixwameni resigned from the Congress of Democrats in December 2007, along with 21 other members.
He founded a new party, the All People"s Party, as a split from the Congress of Democrats the next month.
In October 2009, the APP selected him as the party"s candidate for president
Elected to Parliament in 1999 as a member of the party, he joined the opposition Congress of Democrats (CoD) in 2000 as their chief whip.