Nigeria, March 21 -- Today, on the 35th anniversary of Namibia's independence, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will be sworn in as the country's president, having won the November 2024 presidential elections for the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO), which has governed since independence in 1990.

SWAPO has steadily lost support over its 35 years of rule. In last year's polls, it looked like the party could lose power or be forced into a coalition like its fellow former liberation movement, South Africa's African National Congress.

In the end, it scraped home, with 53 per cent of the parliamentary vote, giving it 51 out of 96 seats. SWAPO was still well ahead of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), which won 20 seats. In the p...