Shafimana Ueitele
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Shafimana Fikameni Immanuel Ueitele (born 6 September 1963) is a Namibian lawyer and professor at the University of Namibia.
Biography
Ueitele was born in Gobabis, Omaheke Region. He earned his Bachelor of Laws at the University of Zimbabwe, where studied from 1986 to 1990. He earned a Master of Laws from the University of the West Indies in Barbados after studying from 1990 to 1992. Upon the independence of Namibia in 1990, Ueitele was appointed an Electoral Commissioner with the Electoral Commission of Namibia. He was reappointed in 2005. He also worked for the City of Windhoek and became a Strategic Executive. In 2001, he became a senior faculty at the University of Namibia Law Department. He represented Ramatex, a clothing manufacturer which opened a textile factory in 2002. It abruptly closed the factory in 2008. He also is a legal advisor to the Namibia Football Association, which governs association football in the country.