IT is business as usual in the DTA top leadership after the top three of the party were re-elected during the past weekend's Central Committee meeting.

Katuutire Kaura will remain the leader of the opposition party for another five years, assisted by Phillemon Moongo, while Johan de Waal saw off four other opponents to win with a two-thirds majority as chairperson of the party.

Both Kaura and Moongo were unopposed.

The vice chairperson position went to Willem de Klerk from Rehoboth, who defeated five other opponents.

The biggest move was that of the young and energetic McHenry Venaani, who stormed back to take the secretary general position after being out of the party structures for the last three years.

Three years ago Venaani challenged Kaura for the DTA presidency but lost, and he was not re-elected as secretary general.

Since then he has served as an ordinary MP for the DTA in the National Assembly.

On Saturday Venaani collected 111 votes against the 35 of incumbent Alois Gende to regain the position.

Venaani became Namibia's youngest Member of Parliament in 2003, at the age of 25.

At 18, he became the youngest CC member of the DTA and he was elected Secretary General in 2002.

When he opened Saturday's meeting Kaura again spoke of his party's opposition to ethnic dominance by one group in the South.

"There is apartheid in Namibia and it is based on who is the top person in a ministry.

A child in Namibia should not change a surname to get a scholarship.

Black and white children must all have the same chance to become president of Namibia," he said.

He said a lot of things like the resettlement scheme, housing, pensions, education and even public space (like no-go areas) had become political hot potatoes.