NSHR is not surprised by the remarkable disapproval of the ruling Swapo Party implicit in the massive voter stay away last Friday October 31 2008 in the Tobias Hainyeko Constituency by-election. Figures attributed to the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) show that a total of 24 825 residents have registered to vote in the said by-election. Statistics reportedly released by Swapo Party Secretary General Mme Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana also indicate that 24 855 residents had voter cards out of a total ...
By Lance Guma SADC Secretary General Tomaz Salomao has finally admitted the power sharing deal signed on the 15th September was fraudulently altered before the signing ceremony and different from the one agreed to by the parties on the 11th September. The Tsvangirai MDC initially raised the concerns in an interview with Newsreel in early October, complaining that ZANU PF had doctored the agreement to alter certain clauses in the document that was to be signed a few days ...
Updated 17th November 2008 at 08:06 PM by NewsTracker
Namibia's National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) remains deeply alarmed by continuous intensification of deep-rooted racial hatred directed against the Ovakwanyama people of Namibia. On October 22 2008 Office of the President Executive Director and former Ambassador Ndali-Ché Kamati expressed his frustration and dismay over what he inter alia described as an ongoing campaign of "ethnic political cleansing" to rid the ruling Swapo Party, the public service and the Office ...
Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) joins The Namibian newspaper and Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) as well as members of the general public in questioning both the wisdom and rationale behind yet another excessive and inexcusable expenditure in favor of former Namibian President Sam Nujoma. In an exposé last week, The Namibian reported in a lead article on October 17 2008 that Cabinet has approved nearly N$22 million in taxpayers’ money to build a luxurious new office for ...
Updated 17th November 2008 at 07:51 PM by NSHR
Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) strongly condemns the extraterritorial hate expression attributed to African National Congress (ANC) Gauteng Province Youth Leader Jacob Kawe over the weekend. Prominent media reports yesterday quoted Kawe as saying: “Destroy those political cockroaches, they are in your kitchen [...] We fear no one, not even our leaders, we tell everyone opposing us to go to hell!” By “destroy[ing] those political cockroaches”, Kawe ...
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