03 Sep 2024 (NAMPA) The Swapo Party Kunene Regional Executive Committee has nominated Mocks Tuakoveni Kenaumue and Irma Afrikaner as the region ' s candidates for the Swapo electoral college , set ...

Reporting on Swapo’s implementation plan, The Namibian sounded a note of scepticism about NNN’s ambition. The plan listed establishing a new national airline by 2026 as a tool to drive Namibia ...

Newly-elected Swapo Party vice president and presidential candidate Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah acknowledges ovations at the 7th Swapo Party Congress in Windhoek, Namibia, November 29, 2022.

Here’s hoping all parties SWAPO, IPC, and everyone else step up their game. Because at the end of the day, we all want the same thing: a Namibia that works for everyone.

The SWAPO had, since independence in 1990, become used almost interchangeably with governance and, until today, grown accustomed to power. Closing in on the 2024 elections, SWAPO seems to be ...

Also, the main opposition candidate, Panduleni Itula, was still a SWAPO member when he ran as an independent candidate in the last election five years ago and won about 30 percent of the vote.

Published 11/26/2024 last updated 11/27/2024 Namibia's SWAPO, in power since 1990, may see a decline in Wednesday's elections but faces no imminent collapse.

A trained dentist, Itula, 67, was himself once a Swapo stalwart but was expelled from the party in 2020 after running as an independent candidate against then-President Hage Geingob in the 2019 poll.

Namibians will vote on Wednesday in what is expected to be the most competitive election yet for the ruling SWAPO party, which has governed the southern African nation for 34 years.

Will Namibia be the next country in southern Africa to kick out a political party in power since independence? It is not improbable, analysts say. In a year that has proven fatal for many ruling ...

Provisional postal votes show a narrowing gap between IPC and Swapo, with IPC securing 2,682 parliamentary votes to Swapo’s 5,904, and 3,006 presidential votes to Swapo’s 5,637.