SWAPO; Afrikaans: Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; German: Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party...
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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...
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2019 Namibian general election (section SWAPO)
political parties contested the National Assembly elections. Hage Geingob of SWAPO was re-elected to the presidency, although his vote share was reduced from...
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(PLAN), an armed wing of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO). The South African Border War was closely intertwined with the Angolan...
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Sam Nujoma (category SWAPO)
president of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) in 1960. Prior to 1960, SWAPO was known as the Ovambo People's Organisation (OPO). He played...
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1973, when the UN recognized the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) as the official representative of the Namibian people. Namibia gained independence...
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Hage Geingob (category SWAPO politicians)
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...
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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...
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List of Namibians (section SWAPO politicians)
NDF 2006–2011 Sam Nujoma (SWAPO), first president of Namibia Hifikepunye Pohamba (SWAPO), second president Hage Geingob (SWAPO), first prime minister of...
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Nangolo Mbumba (category SWAPO politicians)
2018 to 2024. A member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Mbumba has headed several Namibian Government ministries: Agriculture...
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succession. Political parties South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) Status Denotes acting president Status † Died in office Politics of Namibia...
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Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (category SWAPO politicians)
as the deputy-prime minister of Namibia from 2015 to 2024. The current SWAPO vice president, she has retained her position, and is set to become the...
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West African People's Organization (SWAPO) at Ongulumbashe in northern South West Africa (today Namibia). Though SWAPO had already carried out several attacks...
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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...
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and voting behaviour. Some parties are dominated by single ethnic groups; SWAPO itself, its government, and administration, is pre-dominantly Ovambo. Parties...
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2014 Namibian general election (section SWAPO)
elections. Hage Geingob of the ruling SWAPO party, won the presidential elections with 87% of the vote. SWAPO also won the National Assembly elections...
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2009 Namibian general election (section SWAPO)
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...
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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...
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government. Political parties South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) Politics of Namibia List of colonial governors of South West Africa President...
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with 680,788 casting votes, a voter turnout of 97%. Following the election SWAPO supporters celebrated across Windhoek, especially in the segregated and...
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Africa, as well as an extensive military and political campaign to eliminate SWAPO in Namibia. Within South Africa, meanwhile, vigorous police action and strict...
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(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...
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constitution allows, SWAPO amended the constitution, allowing three terms instead of two. They were able to do this since SWAPO had a two-thirds majority...
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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...
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1972 the United Nations had decreed SWAPO to be the "sole legitimate representative" of Namibia's people, but SWAPO was not invited to the Turnhalle conference...
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Hifikepunye Pohamba (category SWAPO politicians)
election overwhelmingly as the candidate of SWAPO, and was reelected in 2009. Pohamba was the president of SWAPO from 2007 until his retirement in 2015. He...
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Hidipo Hamutenya (category SWAPO politicians)
long time leading member of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), Hamutenya was a member of the Cabinet of Namibia from independence in...
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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...
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of Namibia. Political parties South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) "Namibian Constitution (with annotated statutes)" (PDF). www.lac.org.na...
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Nandi-Ndaitwah 1952– SWAPO 2000 2005 Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare 02 Marlene Mungunda 1954– SWAPO 2005 2010 03 Doreen Sioka 1960– SWAPO 2010 2012...
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