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The Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) is a political party in Namibia. It was launched on 17 November 2007 under the leadership of Hidipo Hamutenya and Jesaya Nyamu, both former leading members of the ruling SWAPO party and cabinet ministers. Hamutenya had unsuccessfully sought the SWAPO nomination for President in 2004.
Below is a list of members of the 7th National Assembly of Namibia. [1] They were selected by their parties based on the results of the 2019 parliamentary election. This National Assembly was inaugurated on 20 March 2020. [2] Like each of the previous National Assemblies, it is led by the South West Africa People's Organization. The 7th ...
Panduleni Filemon Bango Itula (born 2 August 1957) [1] is a Namibian politician, dentist, lawyer, and former Chief Dentist at the Katutura State Hospital, as well as a former SWAPO party school lecturer. [2]
In November 2024, the party contested in the 2024 Namibian general election, with its Founder and President, Panduleni Itula, as their presidential candidate. The party received 220,809 votes (20.2%) of the national vote, and gained 20 seats in the Parliament of Namibia. It became the second strongest parliamentary party, behind SWAPO.
SWAPO was founded with the aim of attaining the independence of Namibia and therefore is part of the African nationalist movement. Pre-independence it had a socialist, [4] Marxist–Leninist [8] ideology, a thinking that was not immediately abandoned when independence was achieved in 1990 and SWAPO became the ruling party. [23]
In 2008, the SWAPO Central Committee produced a policy document stating that the party's candidate would be chosen for each election among the top four Committee members. . In March 2011 SWAPO declared that whoever was the party's vice-president following the forthcoming party elections would also be the party's candidate in 2014 for preside
Nujoma is also a member of both the central committee and the politburo of SWAPO. He is the first-born son of Namibia's founding President Sam Nujoma, who was in office as president from 1990 to 2005, and Kovambo Nujoma, the former First Lady of Namibia. On 11 April 2024, Utoni Nujoma was embroiled in a dispute over a family house in Windhoek. [1]
Herman Andimba Toivo ya Toivo (22 August 1924 – 9 June 2017) was a Namibian anti-apartheid activist, politician and political prisoner.Ya Toivo was active in the pre-independence movement, and is one of the co-founders of the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) in 1960, and before that, its predecessor the Ovamboland People's Organization (OPO) in 1959.