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...
Prime Minister Hage Geingob may open the bidding against the ethnic trend; he is from the minority Damara group in west-central Namibia...
Now that Mbumba is on the Central Committee he is a probable candidate - along with Prime Minister Hage Geingob and Trade and Industry Minister Hidipo Hamutenya - to succeed President Sam Nujoma if he stands down before the elections due in 2004...
Prime Minister Hage Geingob has promised to establish an anti-corruption unit if the present commission on corruption recommends it but legislation is not expected until the end of 2000 at earliest...
Prime Minister Hage Geingob one of the front-runners to succeed Nujoma claimed the continued presence of Namibia’s ‘Founding Father’ at the helm of state affairs was essential to preserve national unity...
The main contenders for Nujoma's mantle - including Prime Minister Hage Geingob and Trade and Industry Minister Hidipo Hamutenya - hope that loyal support for a third term will help make them the anointed successor...
While Prime Minister Hage Geingob says Nujoma has earned a third term he also remains a leading contender in the post-Nujoma leadership stakes...
Prime Minister Hage Geingob failed to oust the incumbent Deputy Prime Minister Hendrik Witbooi on a 59:41 per cent vote...
