President Sam Nujoma is expected to stay as party leader until 2007 but will make way for a new presidential candidate to fight the elections due by the end of 2004...
He has publicly confronted Namibian President Sam Nujoma and condemned the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)...
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)...
Many Namibians including key members of the ruling South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) are sceptical about President Sam Nujoma's latest pledge - made at the closing session of the February Non Aligned Movement summit in Malaysia - that he will stand for a fourth five-year term...
The campaign for a fourth so far unconstitutional five-year term for President Sam Nujoma is increasingly orchestrated...
If President Sam Nujoma fails to win the chance of an unconstitutional fourth term Foreign Minister Hidipo Hamutenya a Kwanyama northerner will run strongly for the nomination challenged by new Premier Theo-Ben Gurirab from the minority Damara group...
President Sam Nujoma who said last year he would stand down at the end of his current term has changed his mind and wants to stand again...
The concentration of decision-making in the presidency was shown by the spectacular offer made by Maurice Tempelsman a United States' diamond dealer to President Sam Nujoma...
Safiishuna Sam Nujoma helped found the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) in 1960 as a political exile...
On the Kenyan model Sam Nujoma is determined to keep control of the party after he retires by picking its new leader...
Recent statements by Namibian President Sam Nujoma urging other African leaders to 'support Angola in sensitising the donor community' are early evidence of this...