Swapo has officially announced its line-up of candidates for the upcoming regional and local authority elections, following extraordinary district conferences held over the ...

Swapo’s seemingly unassailable position has been shattered. The outcome of these elections may well go further than a slight erosion of Swapo’s power position.

Its leader, Panduleni Itula, a former dentist and ex-SWAPO member, ran as an independent candidate in 2019, capturing 30% of the vote from his former party colleague Hage Geingob.

If SWAPO remains in power, it is above all because it faces no real opposition to its left. The pro-capitalist party led by Itula, once SWAPO’s youth leader, is no alternative.

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.

SWAPO won 51 out of 96 seats in Parliament, a decrease from the 63 seats it won in the 2019 election. The lost seats were most likely a reflection of widespread frustration with the country’s ...

The SWAPO party has an important role to play in this fight. The values of transparency and accountability we wish to instill in government must begin in our SWAPO home.

Swapo was a winning party and unlike other political parties, he said. "Swapo has the will, the capacity and the necessary experience in governance to bring about a better life for all citizens.

Namibia’s ruling Swapo Party plans to amend the country’s Constitution at its end-November congress to do away with the position of prime minister and create the position of deputy president ...

SWAPO’s National Assembly votes dropped from 80% in 2014 to now 66%. For the first time since 1995, it no longer holds a two-thirds majority.

But it still has many German-named towns and a small German-speaking community. The centre-left Swapo party arose from Namibia's independence movement and has ruled the country since 1990.