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Namibia (Vol 17, 2020)

in Africa Yearbook Online
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Henning Melber
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This was a challenging year for the governing South West Africa People’s Organisation (swapo) and citizenry in general. The political landscape changed in terms of the new legislative period that started on 21 March and the composition of the new government and parliament. Even more so, the governance map was considerably redrawn following the regional and local authority elections held at the end of November. This dramatically reinforced shifts which were manifested with the national assembly and presidential election results of November 2019. The rise of opposition parties was indicative of the growing frustrations among ordinary citizens concerning the degree of corruption revealed by #fishrot, as well as the hardship that the continued recession, exacerbated by the consequences of Covid-19, inflicted on them.

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