Political entitlement has a sell-by date — a harsh truth discovered by a group of Swapo "struggle children".
Joint mining ventures with ‘tenderpreneurs’ ensure that the Asian giant gets a slice of the minerals pie.
Hopes by nine Namibian opposition parties to force an annulment of last year’s November election were dashed on Thursday.
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/ 15 January 2010
Ghost voters cause parties to question Swapo landslide, writes John Grobler.
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/ 11 December 2009
A 75% majority for Namibia’s ruling party in this year’s election has raised eyebrows.
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/ 4 December 2009
Chaos because of the administrative incompetence of the Electoral Commission of Namibia has delayed the final results of the elections.
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/ 20 November 2009
A new opposition party could score votes from disillusioned ‘born-frees’, writes John Grobler.
A week after a scandal of a kickback scheme involving Chinese scanners broke in local media, the chief of the Namibian Defence Force was suspended.
In another example of sharp Chinese diplomatic elbows in Africa it has emerged that Namibia was overcharged for the installation of a rail link.
Namibia’s Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested two people in a case that is set to engulf Hu Haifeng, the eldest son of China’s President Hu Jintao