Adolf Kaure The South West Africa National Union’s (Swanu) candidates for the upcoming 2025 Regional Council and Local Authority elections have set their eyes on improving the state of affairs in Windhoek. The party’s local authority candidate Ripuree Mbakurupa said she is ready to address the alarming rate of school dropouts and unqualified youth as...
Zebaldt Ngaruka GOBABIS – Swanu president Evalistus Kaaronda has condemned the Namibian government’s active opposition to the legal action brought before the High Court by descendants of the Ovaherero and Nama genocide survivors. The Namibian government recently paid legal practitioners to challenge an application seeking to compel the German government to appear before the Namibian...
Zebaldt Ngaruka Namibia’s oldest political party, Swanu, celebrated its 66th anniversary in Okahandja on Saturday. Party president Evilastus Kaaronda, while speaking at the event, said, “Black Namibians remain trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty as a direct result of long years of sustained dispossession, landlessness, and systematic exclusion.” “Swanu’s reputation remains intact and will,...
Zebaldt Ngaruka OKATUMBA GATE –The South West Africa National Union (Swanu), the country’soldest political party, is banking on 26-year-old Kueekuje Kazapua to snatch the Otjombinde constituency from Swapo party during the Regional Councils and Local Authorities elections next month. Kazapua was recently elected as the party’s representative after beating former Namibian Broadcasting Corporation’s Omurari producer...
Rudolf Gaiseb South West Africa National Union (Swanu) president Evilastus Kaaronda has proposed a review and renegotiation of the partnership between De Beers and the Namibian government. The party wants the local government to own the majority share. “There is no logical reason for De Beers to continue being an equal shareholder in this arrangement,”...
Zebaldt Ngaruka GOBABIS – Swanu leader Evalistus Kaaronda has described late former party president Kuzeeko Kangueehi as a man grounded in African socialism, who embodied the spirit of Ubuntu. Kangueehi (81) died last Thursday in Windhoek after a long illness. Affectionately known as ‘Mitiri Kangueehi’ or simply ‘KK’, he led Swanu from 1984 until 1988. ...
Zebaldt Ngaruka EPUKIRO – The president of the South West Africa National Union (Swanu) Evilastus Kaaronda says the labour practices in the army, police force and correctional services are still not democratised and therefore tyrannical. Kaaronda, in an interview with New Era during the commemoration of International Workers’ Day said the labour law allows all...
Swanu leader Evalistus Kaaronda flagged the ‘inadequate’ funds allocated to early childhood development for the 2025/26 financial year. This financial year, the education sector, which includes early childhood development, was allocated a total of N$ 24.8 billion. The entire Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture has been given N$76.1 billion over the...
Zebaldt Ngaruka Swanu president Evilastus Kaaronda believes Namibia’s economy remains in white hands, and this perpetuates the historical networks that undermine the probability of economic freedom and black Namibians. He said this during his contributions to 2025/26 in the National Assembly recently, adding that blacks’ economic freedom will never exist without tackling the white supremacist...
Swanu president Evilastus Kaaronda has urged party supporters to vote for them so that they can tackle unemployment issues by establishing a financial institution. He was speaking during their star rally on Saturday at John ya Otto Nankudhu stadium in Windhoek. “Unemployment for the past 34 years has continued to be a stubborn double-digit phenomenon...