Vol 46 No 19 | NAMIBIA Hamutenya returns 23rd September 2005 Ex-Foreign Affairs Minister Hidipo Hamutenya may soon return to frontline politics after the fall of his opponent Paulus Kapia, the former deputy Minister of Works involved in the...
Vol 46 No 17 | NAMIBIA Pohamba's graft test 26th August 2005 Will the President punish his predecessor's protégé, caught in a financial scandal? A serious fraud has been uncovered by a judicial probe into the misuse of 30 million Namibian dollars (US$4.6 mn.) of state funds by local asset managers Avid...
Vol 46 No 15 | NAMIBIA Diamond battles 22nd July 2005 The diamond war between Israeli magnate Lev Leviev and South African giant De Beers is heating up again in Namibia, a year after Leviev's LLD Diamonds Namibia subsidiary...
Vol 46 No 6 | NAMIBIA Who's in charge? 18th March 2005 The ruling South West African People's Organisation is riven by quarrels, as President Sam Nujoma gets ready to hand over to Hifikepunye Pohamba on 21 March. Pohamba's difficulties...
Vol 46 No 5 | NAMIBIA Power to the party 4th March 2005 The President-elect must balance his predecessor's weight against his party's mood Hifikepunye Pohamba's mandate seemed clear when the 15-16 November presidential election awarded him 76 per cent of the vote. But it is not that simple. First, the outgoing...
Vol 45 No 25 | NAMIBIA Correction 17th December 2004 In our Namibia feature 'Sam's successor' (AC Vol 45 No 24) we described the United Democratic Front as a 'former DTA component'. The UDF had an alliance with...
Vol 45 No 24 | NAMIBIA Sam's successor 3rd December 2004 The new President will have to work hard to convince people that he is his own man President-elect Hifikepunye Pohamba's first test will be to address opposition claims about the running of the 15-16 November election which gave him 76 per cent of the vote....
Vol 45 No 22 | NAMIBIA A Nujoma dynasty? 5th November 2004 With former Foreign Minister Hidipo Hamutenya and his supporters demoted in a purge orchestrated by outgoing President Sam Nujoma, many MPs elected in the 15-16 November polls will...
Vol 45 No 18 | NAMIBIA SWAPO in turmoil 10th September 2004 An anonymous e-mail campaign against former Foreign Minister Hidipo Hamutenya threatens to undermine the governing party's image of unity in the run-up to November elections. President Sam Nujoma...
Vol 45 No 12 | NAMIBIA Sam's man 11th June 2004 SWAPO's new flagbearer offers Nujomaism without Nujoma at the helm It was the result President Sam Nujoma wanted. The congress of the governing South West African People's Organisation on 28-29 May chose party Vice-President Hifikepunye Pohamba as its...