Former Prime Minister Hage Geingob is expected to get a senior post...
Instead Pohamba is expected to please the party modernisers by offering a job to former Prime Minister Hage Geingob who could soon be prime minister again as the incumbent Theo-Ben Gurirab will probably step down next year...
Yet when Attorney General Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana said concern was hypocritical given the party's refusal to act over past anonymous attacks including those against former Premier Hage Geingob Pohamba ended the discussion...
In 2002 he abruptly demoted former Prime Minister Hage Geingob who had questioned his insistence that Pohamba should be appointed unopposed as new SWAPO vice-president (AC Vol 43 No 25)...
Presidential emissaries combine arm-twisting and promises of development largesse to woo delegates from the north who will have about 60 per cent of the votes at the congress and those who would have supported former Prime Minister Hage Geingob...
Despite his relative inexperience Nahas Angula is popular with younger party members and could win backing from supporters of former Prime Minister Hage Geingob...
Appolus points to the edging out of former Prime Minister Hage Geingob a Damara dropped by Nujoma after senior Oshivambo said they would not accept an outsider as party leader; many Oshivambo leaders believe that since they are in the majority they should get the top jobs...
Gurirab was regarded as an effective Foreign Minister but has failed to shine as Prime Minister the post he took when Nujoma dismissed previous incumbent Hage Geingob in August 2002...
Vol 44 No 9 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
In Namibia President Sam Nujoma who changed the constitution to create a third term for himself summarily fired his strongest challenger Prime Minister Hage Geingob in August 2002 (AC Vol 44 No 6)...
Former Premier Hage Geingob is out of the race after accepting a job as Executive Secretary of the Global Coalition for Africa (GCA) based in Washington DC; he resigned as a SWAPO MP last month...