Sakeus Edward Twelityaamena "Sacky" Shanghala (born 13 June 1977) is a Namibian lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of Justice from 8 February 2018 until November 2019 when he was forced to resign in the wake of the Fishrot scandal.
[1] After being appointed Attorney General, Shanghala "hit the ground running, and got busy working on reforming laws – mostly for his benefit.
[5] In November 2019 he was forced to resign his ministerial post over allegations that he took bribes in exchange for providing fishing quotas to the Icelandic fishing company Samherji,[6][7] In December 2019 he was removed from the 6th National Assembly and from SWAPO's parliament list for the 7th National Assembly, for which the election had just concluded.
[9] Part of The Fishrot Six, he and former fisheries minister Bernhardt Esau were arrested in late November 2019.
[10] Already in jail for over 5 months, Shanghala was removed from SWAPO's politburo, one of the party's top decision-making structures, in April 2021, after "absent[ing] himself or herself from three consecutive meetings".