By Reuters
Namibia’s President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah pledged “radical shifts” to fix the country’s high levels of poverty and unemployment, speaking on Thursday in her first press conference since winning last week’s election.
Nandi-Ndaitwah, who will take office in March as the first woman to hold the post in the southern African country, suggested she might break with her SWAPO party predecessors on some social and economic issues. SWAPO has governed Namibia since its independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990.
“It’s not going to be business as usual,” Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, said of her presidency. “We must have radical shifts in addressing the plight of our people.”
She did not lay out specific plans, but mentioned a need for land reform and more equitable distribution of wealth.
Namibia is classed by the World Bank as an upper-middle-income country but it is one of the most unequal in the world, with high
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