Elections in Namibia expose rift in the ruling SWAPO party
30 November 2019 |
9:43 am
Namibians go to the polls on Wednesday to elect a new president and parliament. While nobody expects the ruling party to lose, the days when ''SWAPO was the nation and the nation was SWAPO'' might be numbered.
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