John Mueneni Shaetonhodi (born 1 May 1949) is a Namibian politician, businessperson and trade unionist.
[1] Shaetonhodi worked for the Consolidated Diamond Mines, the Namibian subsidiary of De Beers, in the 1980s and became the first president of the Mineworkers Union of Namibia from 1986 to 1995.
He lived and worked in the southern town of Oranjemund, where he was an activist with SWAPO during the Namibian War of Independence.
He was detained without trial by the South African forces from April 1979 to January 1980 and placed under house arrest from 1980 to 1983.
From 1999 until he left the National Assembly in 2002, he served as deputy Minister of Works, Transport and Communication.