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Namibia

Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba

Date of Birth: 18 August 1936
Place of Birth: Okanghudi, South West Africa (Namibia)


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A Nujoma dynasty?

The South West Africa People's Organisation presidential candidate party Vice-President Hifikepunye Pohamba will easily see off opponents but electors are disillusioned and turnout could be well down...


Sam's man

The congress of the governing South West African People's Organisation on 28-29 May chose party Vice-President Hifikepunye Pohamba as its presidential candidate (AC Vol 45 No 10)...


Closer and closer

A strong campaign for SWAPO Vice-President Hifikepunye Pohamba is under way mainly because he is the incumbent President Sam Nujoma's candidate and Nujoma distrusts Hamutenya...


Nujoma steps aside

His main challenger will be Nujoma's own preferred successor SWAPO Vice-President and Lands Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba...


Pohamba steps up

The battle to succeed President Sam Nujoma is heating up after Hifikepunye Pohamba announced he would stand for president of the governing South West African People's Organisation...


Ten years after

In May an extraordinary congress of the ruling South West African People's Organisation is expected to choose Foreign Affairs Minister Hidipo Hamutenya as its candidate although Nujoma prefers Lands Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba...


No melting pot

That is why some minority leaders privately urge Nujoma to stay on for a fourth unconstitutional five-year term or else back contenders including SWAPO's Vice-President Lands Resettlement and Rehabilitation Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba who is Oshivambo...


Presidential stakes

They include Prime Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab 65 a Damara from western Namibia and SWAPO Vice-President and Lands Resettlement and Rehabilitation Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba...


Hamutenya in the blocks

As yet undeclared these rivals include: Prime Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab who might yet get Nujoma's endorsement; SWAPO Vice-President and Minister of Lands Resettlement and Rehabilitation Hifikepunye Pohamba; and Minister of Agriculture Water and Rural Development Helmut Angula...


After Sam, maybe

SWAPO will elect its new president at a congress in August 2002 says its Secretary General Hifikepunye Pohamba...


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