Swapo

For Swapo – being above two-thirds confirms the party as a dominant force and helps reinforce the idea of ‘the Mighty Swapo’ among supporters.

Ndara also noted since last November when the conflict among Swapo party local authority councillors started, he had noted the Swapo councillors had refused to heed any advice.

Shaningwa made the call at the Swapo headquarters while announcing the dates for the Swapo extraordinary congress, to be held at Ramatex in Windhoek from November 30 to December 1 this year.

SWAPO is the ruling party, and all but one of the new government's first cabinet posts went to SWAPO members.

Swapo lawmaker Becky Ndjoze-Ojo said the objective of amending the Marriage Act is due to "people making changes to their womanhood and manhood".

However, SWAPO won 51 seats in the parliamentary vote, only just passing the 49 it needed to keep its majority and narrowly avoiding becoming another liberation struggle party to be rejected in Southern Africa this year.

Opposition seeking to upend decades of governing Swapo dominance urges voters to stay the course and cast ballots.

SWAPO has governed since leading mineral-rich Namibia to independence from South Africa in 1990 but complaints about unemployment and enduring inequalities could force Nandi-Ndaitwah into an unprecedented second round.

Swapo’s flagbearer, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, is seeking to become the country’s first female president.

The former liberation movement, better known as SWAPO, faces an election in late November in which youth make up about two-thirds of the 1.4 million registered voters.

The November 27 election was a test of SWAPO’s 34-year grip on power, with the IPC attracting some support from younger generations.

A PROJECT to rehabilitate and replant the flower beds on Swapo Road (Broadway) to help them bloom in summer is slowly taking shape.

Asheela yesterday denied making such comments despite The Namibian listening to a recording of his speech at a Swapo mini rally recently at Onankali South in the Oshikoto region.

Cornelius Kanguatjivi, a Swapo Party regional councillor for the Epukiro constituency, has been accused by community members of hand-picking his relatives, including his mother, to profit from a fund meant to benefit poor households.

Geingob complained that he noticed whites registering "in big numbers", which to him means whites have "declared war" and would vote "anything else but Swapo".

He ran on the ticket of the ruling SWAPO party, which has been the governing political party in Nambia since it achieved independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990.

Jahanika, who had resigned from Swapo in 2003 to join Nudo, accused the top leadership of the party of running it as their own.

Kapofi said that while Iiyambo’s argument was sound, unfortunately he reduced his arguments merely to launching an anti-Swapo propaganda campaign.

The amendments to that policy made it possible for Swapo secretary general Sophia Shaningwa to rezone a plot she initially acquired for a kindergarten, to build a service station in Rocky Crest.

The centre-left Swapo party arose from Namibia’s independence movement and has ruled the country since 1990.