Also at the conference Geingob's likely successor as SWAPO presidential candidate in 2024 the party's Vice-President and Foreign Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah topped the list confirming she is in pole position to be Namibia's next – and first female – head of state...
The presence of influential northerners in the cabinet including Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila and Geingob's most likely successor the SWAPO Vice-President International Relations and Cooperation Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will ensure no measurable loss of support from SWAPO's Oshivambo and Kavango political heartlands...
Iivula-Ithana challenged Geingob's choice for the number-two slot he was vacating Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah also International Relations and Cooperation Minister...
Outgoing Finance Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila originally a protégée of Nujoma's is the new Prime Minister with the last Foreign Affairs Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah becoming her deputy...
Leading contenders include the current Foreign Affairs Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah a close ally of Geingob's and the Home Affairs Minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana...
His supporters such as Trade and Industry Minister Calle Schlettwein and Foreign Affairs Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah came safely near the top...
A Southern African Development Community electoral observer mission led by Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah Namibia's Foreign Minister ‘took note of the uniqueness of the electoral system' before congratulating Swazis ‘on their orderly and peaceful elections'...
Hamutenya Hartmut Ruppel and Information and Broadcasting Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah probably voted against expulsion but the Central Committee then endorsed it...
Hamutenya's group is led by former cabinet ministers Jesaya Nyamu (Nujoma secured his expulsion from SWAPO last December) and Hartmut Ruppel; Nicky Iyambo Minister of Agriculture; Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah Minister of Information and Broadcasting; and former National Assembly Speaker Mose Tjitendero...
Among Hamutenya's campaign team are: Trade and Industry Minister Jesaya Nyamu from the second largest Oshivambo sub-group the Ndonga; Women's Affairs Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Kaire Mbuende from the pro-SWAPO Mbanderu-Herero who is tipped for prime minister under Hamutenya...