BEST OF AFRICA – CHANGE HAS COME FOR NAMIBIA AS IT ELECTS IS FIRST FEMALE

PRESIDENT
 NETUMBO NANDI-NDAITWAH OF NAMIBIA’S RULING SWAPO PARTY HAS
BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT AND WILL BE THE COUNTRY’S FIRST FEMALE
LEADER, RESULTS RELEASED BY THE COUNTRY’S ELECTORAL COMMISSION
SHOWED ON TUESDAY. NANDI-NDAITWAH, 72, IS THE CURRENT VICE
PRESIDENT.
 HER VICTORY WILL EXTEND SWAPO’S 34 YEARS IN POWER SINCE IT LED
NAMIBIA TO INDEPENDENCE FROM APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA IN 1990. SHE
RECEIVED ROUGHLY 57% OF VALID VOTES IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE,
ACCORDING TO A BREAKDOWN GIVEN BY THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF
NAMIBIA.
 NANDI-NDAITWAH NEEDED TO SECURE MORE THAN 50% OF THE VOTES TO
SECURE A WIN.
 WE ARE JOINED BY AFRICAN ANALYST AND PRODUCER AT CHANNEL AFRICA,
NIXON KATEMBO TO TELL US MORE.