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SWAKOPMUND – Popular Democratic Movement secretary general Manuel Ngaringombe has called on the Electoral Commission of Namibia to remain impartial and improve election management ahead of the 2025 polls. He made the remarks while opening a seven-day capacity-building workshop for PDM regional coordinators and local authority councillors in Swakopmund. The workshop, facilitated by the Konrad...
Isabel Bento SWAKOPMUND – Following last year’s dismal performance at the national polls, Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) secretary general Manuel Ngaringombe has called for deep introspection and strategic renewal among party members. Ngaringombe made the remarks at the opening of the party’s week-long capacity-building workshop for regional coordinators and local authority leaders, which started at...
Outgoing leader of the official opposition in parliament and Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) president McHenry Venaani said those writing his party off are in for a rude awakening. “It has become a trend in our country that every 10 years, there is a new official opposition (in Parliament),” Venaani said, referencing the years when DTA...
Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) lawmaker Charmaine Tjirare last week demanded the backpay of party members who joined the House two years later while their seats were occupied by fellow party members. In 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that six PDM members – Esmeralda Esme !Aebes, Johannes Martin, Kazeongere Tjeundo, Godfrey Kupuzo Mwilima, Timotheus Sydney Shihumbu...
Rudolf Gaiseb The Popular Democratic Movement’s (PDM) financial department allegedly scrapped its media team from the payroll in December, and withheld their salaries. The party is said to have hired the crew via verbal agreements. One of the aggrieved members of the media team is Desere !Ganes. She told New Era on Friday that their...
Rudolf Gaiseb Just less than two weeks after its dismal electoral performance, a perfect storm is brewing within the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM). The party now finds itself in a tight spot, a situation which has allegedly forced the official opposition in the National Assembly (NA) to vacate its rented offices in Windhoek West, one...
National Assembly secretary Lydia Kandetu says Parliament is not liable to backpay members who joined the House two years later, while their seats were occupied by fellow party members. She was responding to a fresh bid by Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) parliamentarians who were sworn-in in 2022. Since their swearing-in, they have been demanding backpay...
As the countdown to Namibia’s crucial elections climaxes, citizens are gearing up to cast their votes to determine the country’s fate for the next five years. Namibia is pregnant, and will in the coming days deliver a president-elect and 96 members of the National Assembly to preside over the executive and legislative branches of the...
Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) president McHenry Venaani promised that if elected as president of Namibia, his government would only consist of 15 ministers and four deputy ministers. Venaani at his party’s final star rally in Windhoek on Sunday stressed that having a vice president and different ministerial portfolios such as prime minister, and deputy prime...
RUNDU – Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) leader and presidential hopeful McHenry Venaani has promised to change the fate of Kavango inhabitants once elected into power. He said no life will be lost due to crocodile attacks while people fetch water. He promised that he would improve the water infrastructure in the two regions. “Brothers and...