Namibia bets on youth to vote, but will they turn up?
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) warns that unless young people can be persuaded to take an interest in Namibian politics, the country is likely to see low election turnout.
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The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) warns that unless young people can be persuaded to take an interest in Namibian politics, the country is likely to see low election turnout.
HUMAN rights organisation Amnesty International says Namibia's police continue to use excessive force against protesters.
President Hage Geingob yesterday stopped short of declaring a state of emergency over unemployment, but startlingly stated that hordes of frustrated unemployed youth may turn to...
Opposition parties in parliament have expressed solidarity with more than 43 000 “forgotten” civil servants, who last week overwhelmingly voted for a nationwide strike.
WINDHOEK Just months after pushing the ruling party onto the curbs in the regional council and local authority elections, opposition parties have been rocked by a series of fallouts that threaten to eliminate the gains made. The biggest winners at last year's polls - Landless Peoples Movement (LPM) and the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) - have struggled to maintain the decorum within their respective movements after washing their dirty political linen in public. All this comes at a time when political analysts feel that opposition parties have a golden opportunity to show the voting ma...