How Swapo and the ANC respond to any further decline in electoral support will define the future of democracy in both countries.
Mikhail Gorbachev at his news conference following a summit with US President Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1986.
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The problem is that communities who continue to be most affected by the violent past have not been involved in negotiations.
Hundreds of Namibians protested against growing gender-based violence in October 2020. The Afrikaans wording on the placard says ‘We are tired’.
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The legitimacy of SWAPO, the former liberation movement that has governed since 1990, has been eroded amid growing corruption and a deepening economic crisis.
Jackson Mthembu is the most prominent South African politician to succumb to COVID-19.
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The November 2020 local and regional elections have indeed put Namibia’s political culture at a crossroads.
Namibians queue to vote. Fewer and fewer cast it for the ruling party SWAPO.
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No other photographer in southern Africa has documented war in the way that John Liebenberg did. He captured the life and the conflict of both sides in his body of work.
An archive project is restoring the secret history of Namibia’s resistance music culture from the 1950s to the late 1980s – suppressed and censored during apartheid but now touring the world.
The results of the Namibian election reflect growing discontent among voters with the way the country is being run.
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Rock music against military conscription during 1980s South Africa resonated with wider fault lines in Afrikaner society - this as the apartheid regime’s grip on power started to slip.