Zebaldt Ngaruka OKATUMBA GATE – Members of the ruling Swapo party in Tsumkwe district are at logger-heads following the postponement of the party’s district conference last weekend. The conference was set to elect the party’s candidate for Tsumkwe constituency to contest the upcoming regional council elections slated for 26 November 2025. Royal Kxao /Ui/o/oo, the...
OPUWO – The Swapo Party has announced plans to retake control of the Khorixas Town Council and constituency office in the upcoming November Regional Council and Local Authority elections. The announcement follows the finalisation of the party’s candidate selection process in Kunene region. Julius Kaujova, Swapo’s regional coordinator for Kunene, told Nampa the party’s conferences...
Lahja Nashuuta The Swapo Elders’ Council Secretary for Information and Mobilisation, Karin Shikalepo, on Saturday extended a helping hand to Elfriede #Kharises, a resident of Dordabis, who was left destitute after a fire destroyed her home and all her belongings on the evening of Friday, 8 August 2025. Shikalepo donated food items, clothing, bedding, building...
Lylie Joel Uakutura Kambaekua Swapo deputy secretary general (DSG) Uahekua Herunga has emphasised the need for unity within the ruling party ahead of November’s elections. He stressed the importance of solidarity in the face of upcoming challenges. Herunga’s call to action comes on the back of last year’s elections, which resulted in the ruling party...
Zebaldt Ngaruka OTJOMBINDE – Current Otjombinde constituency councillor Wenzel Kavaka will stand as a candidate for the Swapo party for the upcoming Regional Councils and Local Authority elections in November. Swapo’s district coordinator for Otjombinde Tjovavi Tjituka confirmed to New Era that Kavaka was unopposed for the Swapo candidacy position. He added that all eight...
Uakutura Kambaekua Swapo has finalised its candidate selections for six constituencies and their respective local authorities in Kunene ahead of November’s Regional Council and Local Authority elections. The confirmations follow district conferences held in Opuwo Rural, Opuwo Urban, Epupa, Outjo, Kamanjab and Sesfontein constituencies. Khorixas is slated to hold its primary conference next weekend. Following...
Sawi Hausiku RUNDU – The secretary of the Swapo Party Youth League in Kavango East Anselm Marungu is set to contest the position of regional councillor for the Ndonga Linena constituency. Marungu will compete against the incumbent councillor Michael Kampota and former regional coordinator Marceline Kahare at the upcoming elective district conference, pending the outcome...
Minister of Works and Transport Veikko Nekundi has called on Namibians to fly the Swapo flag with pride. He said the ruling party remains the only political movement with the nations’s best interest at heart. He was speaking at a Swapo mini rally at Oshawapala village in the Endola constituency of the Ohangwena region over...
BERSEBA – A sombre atmosphere prevailed on Tuesday at the residence of the late Dean Emeritus Stefanus Tiboth in the southwestern village of Berseba. Tiboth, a former Swapo party regional coordinator, died on 26 May 2025 after a short illness at the Keetmanshoop State hospital. He was 80. In a condolence speech read on her...
Lahja Nashuuta Swapo leader Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has dismissed reports suggesting a strained relationship between her and party secretary-general Sophia Shaningwa. Quoting Founding President Sam Nujoma, Nandi-Ndaitwah said: “A people united, striving to achieve a common good for all the members of the society, will always emerge victorious.” This, she said, is the mantra she embodies,...