SWAPO; Afrikaans: Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; German: Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party...

SWAPO for Justice, a splinter group of SWAPO in Namibia, was founded on 4 May 1995. SWAPO-J was led by Sakari Njoba Nghewete. SWAPO-J's cadre was mainly...

political parties contested the National Assembly elections. Hage Geingob of SWAPO was re-elected to the presidency, although his vote share was reduced from...

president of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) in 1960. Before 1960, SWAPO was known as the Ovambo People's Organisation (OPO). He played...

The SWAPO Democrats, also known as SWAPO-D, was a political party formed from a break within the South West Africa People's Organization in 1978. Formed...

(PLAN), an armed wing of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO). The South African Border War was closely intertwined with the Angolan...

path, joining Swapo’s diplomatic efforts. Nandi-Ndaitwah went into exile in 1974 and joined SWAPO members in Zambia. She worked at the SWAPO headquarters...

NDF 2006–2011 Sam Nujoma (SWAPO), first president of Namibia Hifikepunye Pohamba (SWAPO), second president Hage Geingob (SWAPO), first prime minister of...

South African airborne attack on a South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) military camp at the town of Cassinga, Angola on 4 May 1978. Conducted...

1973, when the UN recognised the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) as the official representative of the Namibian people. Namibia gained independence...

(SWAPO) base complexes, Chetequera and Dombondola, near to the then-South West Africa/Angola border; an assault by the elite 32 Battalion on SWAPO's...

succession. Political parties   South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) Status   Denotes acting president Symbol † Died in office Politics of Namibia...

margin. In November 2017, Geingob became the third president of the ruling SWAPO Party after winning by a large margin at the party's sixth Congress. He...

elections. Hage Geingob of the ruling SWAPO party, won the presidential elections with 87% of the vote. SWAPO also won the National Assembly elections...

and his SWAPO Party were re-elected, each with over 75% of the vote. Prior to the election, the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) was widely...

and voting behaviour. Some parties are dominated by single ethnic groups; SWAPO itself, its government, and administration, is pre-dominantly Ovambo. Parties...

a candidate of his party, the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO), of which she is also vice president, in 2023. Upon Geingob's death, she...

it was the newly introduced gender equality system of the ruling party SWAPO. This system would have pushed several male members out of parliament. The...

with 680,788 casting votes, a voter turnout of 97%. Following the election SWAPO supporters celebrated across Windhoek, especially in the segregated and...

government. Political parties   South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) Politics of Namibia List of colonial governors of South West Africa President...

membership. SWAPO is the ruling party, and all but one of the new government's first cabinet posts went to SWAPO members. A Marxist-oriented movement, SWAPO has...

South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party. In the 2004 regional elections, Hilma Nicanor (SWAPO) was elected with 1,872 of the 3,803 votes...

traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party. In the 2004 regional elections, its candidate David Shoombe was...

2018 to 2024. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Mbumba has headed several Namibian Government ministries: Agriculture...

John Pandeni, a member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) and its militant wing, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)....

Africa during the apartheid period. DTA - Democratic Turnhalle Alliance SWAPO - South West Africa People's Organisation Namibia Bantustans in South West...

terms. Eight additional members are appointed by the President. Since 2015, SWAPO member Peter Katjavivi has been the Speaker of the National Assembly. Namibia's...

former Chief Dentist at the Katutura State Hospital, as well as a former SWAPO party school lecturer. He was an independent presidential candidate for...

Organization (SWAPO) party. The first councillor of this constituency was SWAPO's Karel Persendt. In 1998, Margaret Mensah-Williams, also on a SWAPO ticket,...

the SWAPO-led government; Besides the posh suburbs it contains a Police academy and Windhoek's two army bases. In the 2004 regional election, SWAPO candidate...