Swartbooi founded the LPM after his expulsion from SWAPO for accusing the then lands minister Utoni Nujoma a son of former head of state Sam Nujoma of favouring applications from northern Namibians in the land resettlement programme...
LPM leader Bernadus Swartbooi was a SWAPO member and deputy land reform minister (2015-17) until he fell out with his superior Land Reform Minister Utoni Nujoma the eldest son of Namibia's first President Sam Nujoma and was sacked (AC Vol 60 No 14 SWAPO succession dilemma)...
Its leader Bernadus Swartbooi was forced to resign as deputy lands minister in early 2017 after publicly criticising the Minister of Land Reform Utoni Nujoma the eldest son of the former head of state over the identity of the beneficiaries of government-funded land resettlement of so-called 'historically disadvantaged Namibians' (HDNs) on commercial farms bought from white Namibians...
The sale was defended by Utoni Nujoma...
The SYL the party’s radical quasi-Marxist wing had nominated Ekandjo for the vice-presidency and ex-President Sam Nujoma’s son Utoni Nujoma as Secretary General...
Utoni Nujoma son of the party’s founder Sam Nujoma had nominated Iivula-Ithana but switched to Ekandjo’s camp...
Nujoma has dynastic ambitions for his son Utoni Daniel Nujoma 59 but recognises that this is not the time for him to stand...
Windhoek is also happy to deal with Tehran: Foreign Minister Utoni Nujoma and Mines and Energy Minister Isak Katali were in Iran last month to discuss building an oil refinery...
The prospect of a Nujoma dynasty looms with the promotion of Utoni Nujoma the eldest son of founding President Sam Nujoma to the senior cabinet position of Minister of Foreign Affairs...
Now he is said to be lobbying quietly for his eldest son Utoni Daniel Nujoma 57 the Deputy Justice Minister...
He is also increasingly suspected of dynastic ambitions; if Pohamba stepped down and Geingob took over he is thought likely to push for his eldest son Utoni Nujoma (currently Deputy Justice Minister) to take Geingob's job as SWAPO Vice-President...
The new President may also have to find a job for Utoni Nujoma who was ranked tenth on the party's parliamentary list thanks to backing from his father and officials at State House the presidential residence in Windhoek soon to be replaced by a North Korean-built palace in the suburbs...