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...
Kuugongelwa-Amadhila is from Omusati and a member of the Ogandjera minority sub-group of the Oshivambo and a protégé – some say niece – of Namibia's founding president Sam Nujoma (also Ogandjera)...
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)...
In contrast to his two predecessors as president Sam Nujoma (1990-2005) and Hifikepunye Pohamba (2005-15) who are both Oshiwambo Geingob is from the minority Damaras who live mainly in the central-west and north-western Erongo and Kunene Regions...
The vice-presidency goes to 79-year-old SWAPO veteran Dr Nickey Iyambo the outgoing Veterans Affairs Minister and founding President Sam Nujoma's personal physician before Independence...
It's seen locally as harking back to the almost autocratic power of founding President Sam Nujoma...
Geingob's emerging top-down leadership style is reminiscent of Namibia's first President and 'Founding Father' Sam Nujoma...
His erstwhile rivals for the vice-presidency Home Affairs Minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana and Youth and Sports Minister Jerry Ekandjo are on the sidelines and ex-President Sam Nujoma's once-powerful influence is waning...
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...