She professes to be unconcerned and is backed by party heavyweights including former President Hifikepunye Pohamba (in office from 2005 to 2015) and is popular in the army (she is married to a former Namibia Defence Force [NDF] chief of staff Maj Gen Epaphras Denga Ndaitwah)...
That should put Nandi-Ndaitwah who is close to former President Hifikepunye Pohamba whose influence within SWAPO remains strong on track to become Namibia's first female president...
In contrast to his two predecessors as president Sam Nujoma (1990-2005) and Hifikepunye Pohamba (2005-15) who are both Oshiwambo Geingob is from the minority Damaras who live mainly in the central-west and north-western Erongo and Kunene Regions...
The appointment probably followed consultation with the outgoing head of state Hifikepunye Pohamba and Nujoma...
Voting almost seems like a formality in what is virtually a ceremonial handing over of power by one SWAPO grandee President Hifikepunye Pohamba to another...
Some jumped ship to support outgoing President Hifikepunye Pohamba's call to elect younger members to take the party forward...
Geingob has evidently won cabinet backing for the changes and the (reportedly reluctant) endorsement of the outgoing President Hifikepunye Pohamba...
Under outgoing President Hifikepunye Pohamba and the Prime Minister and president-to-be Hage Geingob the governing SWAPO Party approaches November's general elections more united than ever...
President Hifikepunye Pohamba and Prime Minister Hage Geingob have been trying to quell the rebellious SWAPO Party's Youth League – but without much luck...
Geingob was re-elected to the party vice-presidency last December and is virtually certain to succeed President Hifikepunye Pohamba in 2015 (AC Vol 53 No 25)...
