A PRESIDENT FROM THE OPPOSITION?
Namibia: Will Swapo go the way of the ANC?
PIET CROUCAMP will be in his country of birth in November to cover the general election in all its nuance, controversy, and intrigue. South Africans will find much of it strikingly familiar.
A PRESIDENT FROM THE OPPOSITION?
Namibia: Will Swapo go the way of the ANC?
PIET CROUCAMP will be in his country of birth in November to cover the general election in all its nuance, controversy, and intrigue. South Africans will find much of it strikingly familiar.
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ON 27 November 2024, Namibians will hold their seventh national and presidential elections since independence in 1990. On that day, a new president and the members of the national assembly are to be elected. I plan to visit during this time and hang around like a typical academic observer in coffee shops, at polling stations and media gatherings. There will be generous hackfleisch brötchen and German coffee along the way.
Namibian businessman Wouter van Zijl invited me to Namibia to do marketing for Vrye Weekblad. He's also putting together panel discussions in The Village that will hopefully get belligerent enough to be recorded as “memorable". Theoretically, the idea is that the conversation will shed light on the trajectories of data and the will of the people of Namibia.
As a born Namibian, I hold my hand to my heart that the elections will end freely and fairly, and that Namibia is given a government that will get the country off the grey list of the international watchdog against economic crime and the funding of terrorism, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). To achieve this, the next government must get corruption under control and manage the country's finances in such a way that the state's debt burden does not drag the fragile economy under the deep, dark waves. The political similarities between South Africa and Namibia are more striking than we realise and the FATF's damning reports on these two countries are proof of it...
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Contributing editorPiet Croucamp is a lecturer in political science at the NWU business school.