Before the build-up to the 2019 elections, the name Panduleni Itula had no relevance in our body politic and the collective imagination of the Namibian public. In fact, I used to ask myself in Afrikaans: “Wie is die ou?” (who…

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…

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…