Tangeni Amupadhi

He walked to the podium. Teeth glistening in the cameras’ flashlights, the trademark smile acknowledging ululating women and deafening applause. The aide-de-camp handed him his speech, but president Sam Nujoma hardly looked at the piece of paper. Instead he joined in the momentum started by the more than 500 delegates to the third Swapo congress, who had been expecting him two hours earlier. “History is made by people,” he began.

by TANGENI AMUPADHI THE man who kept President Sam Nujoma, along with everyone else, in suspense over the outcome of Swapo's special congress, was so worried himself that he did not sleep soundly for four days and travelled in a security company's bakkie crouching around boxes. Swapo's special congress, held to elect the party's presidential candidate for the November elections, had most of the country apprehensive and entranced, including the puppeteers.

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