And on 6 September MPs in Namibia's parliament challenged President Hage Geingob's message of congratulations to Mnangagwa citing the critical verdict of the regional observer missions...
President Hage Geingob and his close ally mines minister Tom Alweendo have signalled their seriousness about obtaining the maximum benefit of minerals used in electric vehicle (EV) batteries by banning their export in raw form...
President Hage Geingob won with only 56% in 2019 down from 87% in 2014...
Shell and TotalEnergies' initial oil discoveries early last year prompted President Hage Geingob to announce the creation of the Welwitschia Fund a sovereign wealth fund managed by the Bank of Namibia which will be used to finance investment in the infrastructure with an initial capital of N$300 million (US$18m)...
He counts among his friends not only President Hage Geingob but former mines and energy minister and current National Planning Commission (NPC) director-general Obeth Kandjoze and the former justice minister and stalwart of the once powerful 'Omusati' clique within the party Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana (AC Vol 47 No 5 Nujoma won't go)...
Vol 64 No 10 |
- NAMIBIA
- MINING
A former personal assistant to President Hage Geingob Hangula chaired the board of the Development Bank of Namibia (DBN) and Namibia Desert Diamonds (Namdia) which markets Namibia's 15% share of diamonds produced by Namdeb the government-De Beers 50/50 joint venture...
Namibia's President Hage Geingob is the current chair of SADC's Troika on Politics Defence and Security Cooperation...
Despite calls for party unity the re-election of SWAPO Vice-President and Namibian president in waiting Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah continues to widen divisions with the previously dominant faction supporting current President Hage Geingob (AC Vol 63 No 24 Geingob's successor to inherit a divided SWAPO)...
Seven hundred delegates attend the seventh elective congress of the SWAPO Party in Windhoek on 25-27 November to elect the party's next vice-president and successor to President Hage Geingob...
When 'integrity' is a dirty word President Hage Geingob's unprecedented decision to oppose the re-election of Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as party vice-president – which would virtually assure she succeeds him as state president in the 2024 election – is because she is standing as an 'integrity' candidate we hear...
She won re-election at the 24-28 November party congress fairly comfortably gaining 491 votes (58% of the total cast) against 270 for her main rival Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila who had been favoured by President Hage Geingob...
As the end of President Hage Geingob's second and final five-year term of office nears the SWAPO Party is set to pick his successor for the 2024 elections at its elective congress in November...
