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Rui Tyitende

Rui Tyitende


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The Politician as a Thinker: Namibia Under Nandi-Ndaitwah

When a party is as electorally dominant as Swapo, there is a natural propensity for political analysts, journalists and the public to closely follow and analyse its internal politics, the way it governs and its shortcomings.  This is because Swapo…

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​​A Crisis of Opposition Politics?

The philosophically unexamined life is not worth living, the Greek philosopher Socrates once remarked. It may equally be that philosophically unexamined politics is not worth practising. Throughout the democratic world, the path to political power is exclusively through a political…

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Is Namibia a Criminal State?

To some, the title of this article may suggest the Namibian state is a criminal entity. Others would unequivocally contend that organised criminal activities have occurred involving the political elite, local businessmen and international capital.  Why be concerned about criminalisation…

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