Presidential emissaries combine arm-twisting and promises of development largesse to woo delegates from the north who will have about 60 per cent of the votes at the congress and those who would have supported former Prime Minister Hage Geingob...
Despite his relative inexperience Nahas Angula is popular with younger party members and could win backing from supporters of former Prime Minister Hage Geingob...
Appolus points to the edging out of former Prime Minister Hage Geingob a Damara dropped by Nujoma after senior Oshivambo said they would not accept an outsider as party leader; many Oshivambo leaders believe that since they are in the majority they should get the top jobs...
Gurirab was regarded as an effective Foreign Minister but has failed to shine as Prime Minister the post he took when Nujoma dismissed previous incumbent Hage Geingob in August 2002...
Vol 44 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
In Namibia President Sam Nujoma who changed the constitution to create a third term for himself summarily fired his strongest challenger Prime Minister Hage Geingob in August 2002 (AC Vol 44 No 6)...
Former Premier Hage Geingob is out of the race after accepting a job as Executive Secretary of the Global Coalition for Africa (GCA) based in Washington DC; he resigned as a SWAPO MP last month...
Former Prime Minister Hage Geingob will probably soon go to Washington as Executive Secretary of the Global Coalition for Africa...
Resistance within SWAPO to Nujoma's fourth term is fuelled by ambitions and rivalries among party leaders heightened in August when Nujoma tried to neutralise his main potential successors as party leader Hage Geingob and Hidipo Hamutenya...
Hage Geingob Prime Minister since 1990 was replaced by the equally long-serving Foreign Affairs Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab...
In the running SWAPO leadership poll in The Namibian daily newspaper Gurirab is the clear favourite with over half the readers' votes far ahead of Hamutenya and Premier Hage Geingob another Damara presidential contender...
