The former liberation movement South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo) has been in firm political control of Namibia since independence in 1990. Support for the party in the national assembly ...

The 2024 elections in mineral-rich Namibia have confirmed growing opposition to the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO), in power since independence in 1990. SWAPO president-elect Netumbo ...

Swapo member of parliament Elder Filipe has proposed tax relief for pensioners under a proposed motion to review retirement benefit taxation tabled in the National Assembly this week.Filipe is calling ...

Namibia’s presidential and National Assembly elections this year have been historic on many fronts. They were the country’s most controversial elections, with accusations of foreign interference and ...

The South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo) – the former liberation movement that has governed the country since independence – used to win by huge margins. But, increasingly, Namibians are ...

Namibia, until recently led by an interim president in power since the death of former President Hage Geingob in February, was tipped as potentially facing turmoil and even unrest as its elections ...

The ruling Swapo party has secured a big victory in the Local Authorities polls, winning over 52% of all seats nationwide - and marking an increase of nearly 40% since the 2020 polls. Namibia's ...

Namibians queue to vote in 2019. Gianluigi Guercia/AFP via Getty Images Itula, contesting as an “independent candidate” without party nomination, managed to snatch 30% of the votes from Geingob. Swapo ...

Paul Trewhela, an anti-Stalinist historian of the national liberation movements in Southern Africa, reviews Marion Wallace's A History of Namibia: From the Beginning to 1990 A new history of Namibia ...

The results of the latest regional and local government elections in Namibia show just how much the political landscape has changed in the country since independence from South Africa in 1990. The ...