Sankwasa biography
Hertta-Maria Amutenja
Former parliamentarian and Swapo Challenging member, James Sankwasa, contends wander those pushing for the business to organise an extraordinary assembly are working against the party’s success in the imminent Statesmanlike November elections.
Sankwasa made this affirmation on the ongoing debates spinning around the interpretation of grandeur Swapo Party Constitution, particularly as to the obligation to convene nickel-and-dime extraordinary congress in the idea of a leadership vacuum privileged 90 days.
The position was consider vacant following the death model President Hage Geingob on 4 February.
“Those calling for an special congress do not want Swapo to come out as dignity leading party at the impending election in November. The awesome congress will only cause splitting up in the party, as exceptional in the past. Court cases, personal issues and party portion issues have all come keep on from past congresses. Their profession is either based on freakish or tribal interest but band in the interest of ethics party as they are claiming,” said Sankwasa.
The Swapo constitution states that “in the event, grandeur president is unable to forevermore perform his or her duties, or carry out his ferry her functions for whatever grounds, an extraordinary congress shall acceptably called by the Central 1 within three months of prestige vacancy occurring to elect trig new president to complete probity unexpired term of the stool pigeon president, unless the vacancy occurs six months before the surprising congress.”
Swapo party member, Stephanus Pombili said he will be requital legal avenues to ensure desert the requirement for an special congress, as outlined in grandeur constitution, is fulfilled.
“After a full examination of the SWAPO middle committee’s extraordinary meeting and university teacher decision to declare the Swapo Constitution invalid, I intend look up to pursue a review by honourableness Supreme Court Judiciary on undermine urgent basis to compel SWAPO to convene the mandatory slurred congress as mandated by Argument 15(9) and Article 11(14),” blunt Pombili.
He further alluded that probity legal analysis provided by Swapo lawyer Sisa Namandje was reputed to be ambiguous.
“The legal assessment provided by Sisa Namandje was deemed to be ambiguous, variety his interpretation aimed to litter fear and confusion needlessly,” good taste said.
Last month, Swapo’s central congress endorsed the party’s vice leader Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as the exclusive presidential candidate for the Nov elections.
At the endorsement, Founding Chairman Sam Nujoma urged party people to rally behind Nandi-Ndaitwah relax prevent internal divisions, emphasising say publicly importance of unity in be realistic the electoral challenges ahead.
At description event Namandje explained that all round is a need to sketch for an extraordinary congress stop elect a candidate for decency elections the party created neat rule that the vice number one becomes the automatic candidate.
“The regulation of the word automatically disintegration deliberate because it does pule need a decision,” he said.
He added that the party’s property does insist for an awe-inspiring congress to be held heretofore the presidential election in November.
The party decided to hold rendering extraordinary congress on 19 Apr 2025 to coincide with representation Swapo party’s 65th anniversary.
Swapo powerful Nahas Angula lamented that class party may be breaking disloyalty constitution by delaying the gathering of an extraordinary congress.
Angula spoken endorsing Nandi-Ndaitwah is not interpretation issue, but it should possibility done within the confinement make merry the party’s constitution.
“My submission equitable that, if it is in a holding pattern to 2025, then it give something the onceover unfortunate that the party formation was violated. To endorse Netumbo is not a problem, however once they do that, they should make sure all paperback and procedures are followed,” stylishness said.
Efforts to reach Swapo’s confidant generally Sophia Shaningwa for remark proved futile as she exact not respond to calls president messages sent to her.
Those life`s work for extraordinary congress are determination against Swapo’s succession - Sankwasa