Namibia: Bid to Stop Swapo Extraordinary Congress

19 November 2018

DISGRUNTLED Swapo members have turned to the courts in a bid to interdict the upcoming extraordinary congress of the ruling party, pending a legal challenge to the outcome of last year's disputed elective congress in which president Hage Geingob and his slate scored landslide victories.

The four Swapo members, namely Nambata Angula (an executive member of Swapo's Windhoek East district), Mirjam Shituula, Selma Nambago and Seth Boois (suspended Kalkrand Village Council chief executive officer) in a statement demanded an independent audit into the outcome of the party's 6th elective congress held in November last year.

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