Vice President Nickey Iyambo used the official opening of the SADC local authorities conference at Swakopmund yesterday to call on Swapo delegates to next month's party congress to vote for minister Sophia Shaningwa to become the party's next secretary general.
He told over 100 domestic and regional government delegates yesterday that the Swapo leadership had "set their eyes on the woman of no-nonsense" for what he called "the most powerful position of secretary general".
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