The Namibian National Assembly and Presidential elections are fast approaching, and the nation finds itself at a political crossroads. On one hand, there is a call for change, citizens yearning for a departure from decades of one-party dominance, seeking fresh voices in governance. On the other, some prefer continuity, valuing stability over unpredictability. As Namibia...
LÜDERITZ – Swapo leader assigned to the //Kharas region Tom Alweendo said the party has a workable plan to address socio-economic challenges facing Namibians. He said this while delivering a keynote address during a mini-rally in Lüderitz recently. “We have what is needed to deliver in terms of the party manifesto,” he stated. The mines...
Swapo Party vice president and presidential candidate Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says the party will channel N$85 billion towards job-creation and tackle youth unemployment in the country over a period of five years, once it retains power. “Comrades, we are going to create jobs… Youth unemployment remains a real challenge. The high rate of youth unemployment is...
Auleria Wakudumo Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) president McHenry Venaani says the party is the only vehicle through which Namibia can be transformed. This will be done through evidence-based, pragmatic solutions needed to address the source of unemployment and the multi-pronged developmental challenges the country faces, he stated. Venaani was speaking at the party’s Oshana star...
WALVIS BAY – Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) leader Panduleni Itula has warned Namibians to brace for an onslaught of smear campaigns and propaganda as the country approaches the much-anticipated elections next Wednesday. Itula, who is adamant that he will be sworn in as the next president of Namibia after the elections, was addressing hundreds...
Lahja Nashuuta The United People’s Movement (UPM) has lost an income of N$ 1.75 million to the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) following the break-up of the political coalition in 2023 in support of Ally Angula, who was to contest as an independent candidate. Jan van Wyk revealed this during an interview with New Era this...
While thousands of Namibian servicemen and women braved the Wednesday heat to cast their special votes this week, Shamani Shikwambi, Natalia Egan, Reagan Kamboua and several other Namibians based across the Atlantic were flying from one State to the other to cast their special votes. Shikwambi, an academic from Minneapolis, took a two-hour flight from...
Teargas was used to disperse members of the Namibian Police Force and members of the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) in what could have degenerated into a national security disaster as skirmishes broke out at the Windhoek West special vote polling station, where members of the security cluster were casting their votes. The incident, which occurred...
The United Peopl e’s Moveme nt (UPM) grabbed media attention after the Speaker of National Assembly, Peter Katjavivi, chucked them from parliament on the instruction of their then alliance partner, Popular Democratic Movement. But who is the UPM? This week, New Era journalist Lahja Nashuuta (LN) visited the party’s headquarters in Rehoboth and had an...
Lahja Nashuuta Rudolf Gaiseb Windhoek – Close to 8 000 members of Namibia’s uniformed forces and fisheries sector employees yesterday took to the polling booths to cast their votes in this year’s Presidential and National Assembly elections. This special vote allows registered voters who cannot vote at their voting stations on election day (27 November)...