Lahja Nashuuta Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi has promised citizens a “social cash transfer” from envisaged oil revenues, if voted into power, and suggested government’s housing delivery strategy can improve with greater responsibility to local authorities. He said the cash transfer programme is the only effective way to “pull children and families out of...
Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi has vowed that his party will never deviate from addressing the plight of landless Namibians. At the centre of LPM’s land fight, Swartbooi said, are those affected by the issue of ancestral land. Swartbooi was speaking in Omaheke region at the weekend, where he held public meetings – one...
KEETMANSHOOP – Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi has expressed concern over the low number of eligible voters who have registered so far in the //Kharas region. He raised these concerns in an interview with Nampa here on Saturday during the belated independence celebration for the Keetmanshoop Urban constituency. “Generally, voter apathy is a...
Lahja Nashuuta Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi has accused the government of using public resources to advance the ruling party’s election agenda. According to Swartbooi, the government’s decision last week to subsidise the cost of electricity by N$365 for the current financial year is an election gimmick for the upcoming Presidential and National Assembly...
The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) and the National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo) yesterday criticised the ongoing genocide negotiations between Namibia and the German government, asking for the inclusion of people in the diaspora, especially those in Botswana and South Africa. Their criticism follows Monday’s update by Namibia special envoy on genocide Zed Ngavirue to President Hage...
Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi says the Swapo-led government has failed the Namibian people. Swartbooi, who was addressing landless residents of Okahandja on Sunday, said even President Hage Geingob admitted to the failures during the Swapo introspection conference that ended in Windhoek yesterday. “All Swapo consecutive regimes have failed to change or better the...
KEETMANSHOOP – Landless People’s Movement (LPM) Petrus Josob, said the party’s //Kharas regional political action committee has in the strongest term denounced and condemned what he termed as deplorable threats uttered against the leadership of the party including Bernadus Swartbooi. He said this in a recent press statement availed to New Era. Swartbooi drew the...