Swapo's planned extraordinary congress at the end of February is allegedly designed to prevent current ministers who might not make it to parliament from contesting president-elect Netumbo Nandi ...

The government is set to implement the Swapo Party of Namibia's manifesto, which will cost N$85.7 billion, following a retreat which is currently underway. This was approved by the Cabinet two ...

Mr. Nujoma and his forces — the South-West Africa People’s Organization, or SWAPO — were caught in the middle as they fought to oust White-ruled South Africa, which took hold over the former ...

Henning Melber is a member of SWAPO since 1974. Sam Nujoma was an outstanding Namibian leader who personified more than anybody else the country’s liberation struggle history and independence.

Sam Nujoma, the freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first ...

In the late 1950s he became leader of the Owambo People's Organisation, a precursor to liberation movement SWAPO. Made SWAPO leader in absentia, Nujoma established its armed wing and in 1966 ...

SWAPO has been Namibia's ruling party since 1990. When South Africa refused to heed a 1966 U.N. resolution ending its mandate over the former German colony of South West Africa, Nujoma launched ...

In a country scarred by the legacy of apartheid and German colonial rule, Dr Nujoma’s Swapo party oversaw a national reconciliation programme under the motto “One Namibia, One Nation”.

President of Namibian SWAPO Sam Nujoma gestures during a press conference at Addis Ababa on July 7, 1990. Nujoma became Namibia's first president after it won independence from South Africa in 1990.

With the arrival of South Africa’s system of apartheid in South West Africa in 1966, Nujoma launched his independence campaign by forming the South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo ...