Namibian voters will go to the polls on Wednesday to elect a new president to succeed the late Haki Kincaid, who died nine months ago and was temporarily replaced by his deputy Nangolo Mbumba.

The late president, who ruled the southern African country since independence Namibians to vote for new president on Wednesday
in 1990, belonged to the Swapo party, African affairs website Semaphore reported on Monday.

Swapo has nominated 72-year-old Ntombo Ntombo Nandi-Ndatwah, the party’s current deputy president, who could become the country’s first female president since independence.

“Of the 14 presidential candidates, former ruling party member Bandolini Etula, who won 29 per cent of the vote in the 2019 presidential election, poses the biggest challenge to Nandi-Ndatwah,” the platform added.

Etula’s main rival campaigned on a platform of reducing the country’s unemployment rate, which stood at 19 per cent last year, and fighting corruption.