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

SWAPO party was declared the winner of the election. She is set to become Namibia's first female president. The National Assembly elections saw 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...

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...

also SWAPO's first female presidential candidate for the 2024 Namibian general election. In 2017, Nandi-Ndaitwah was elected vice-president of SWAPO, the...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

(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...

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

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...

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

three activists were expelled from SWAPO for their actions. This expulsion was ordered by the 'Top four' of SWAPO party: president Hifikepunye Pohamba...

West African People's Organization (SWAPO) at Ongulumbashe in northern South West Africa (today Namibia). Though SWAPO had already carried out several attacks...

constituencies in Northern Namibia, hitherto considered an impenetrable SWAPO stronghold. On 28 November 2024, Trevino Forbes of IPC was re-elected as...

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...

of Namibia. Political parties   South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) "Namibian Constitution (with annotated statutes)" (PDF). www.lac.org.na...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Defence Force as they destroyed a SWAPO command base and captured a significant number of weapons and ammunition. The SWAPO had to retreat back into Angola...

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...