Once again we have achieved your typical Namibian election result, with only Swapo and ‘breakaway Swapo’ performing.
The rest of the political landscape is looking as hard, grim and dark as Satan’s hoof.
The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) is nothing but a slightly evolved version of Swapo. We could also call it Swapo 2.0.
Nothing new there then.
Expect the IPC to flash brightly for a brief period of time and then fade into obscurity. By the time 2029 comes around it will be just another Rally for Democracy and Progress tragedy.
The real loser of this election was the Popular Democratic Movement. I just don’t see the dynamics there. They lack the energy they had in the 80s when they were the party guiding Namibia to independence.
When independence came around, they lost their position. They also lost their identity and they still haven’t recovered from it. Your real little monsters are the Affirmative Repositioning and the Landless People’s Movement, which are really one and the same party as they stand for the same neurotic and Maoist principles.
The only reason they have not combined yet is because of your typical Namibian political disease: You know, the one where every self-imagined leader wants to be the rooster on his own little dung heap and enjoy the adoration of masses of followers attending to their every gluttonous whim.
That is why Namibia with its 1.4 million voters has something like 20 political parties. Namibia is a nation of little people. Your typical political prostitute complaining of colonisation and foreign business and land ownership while at the same time eagerly receiving their financial handouts and investment.
Where most citizens south of Etosha hate the ruling party yet still votes for them, only because that’s where the money and opportunities lie. So, congrats, Swapo!
A tired and bloated party full of tired and boring people.
Safe in their position as long as they keep their northern ethnic base happy.
A spoilt and pampered ethnic base that will automatically, without thinking, vote for them every time.
So that’s Namibian politics for you, a tragedy of blind loyalty, mental slavery, masochism and ignorance.
Pity the intellectual and the visionary.
This country belongs to the dinosaurs.
W Smit
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