Swartbooi calls for action at LPM convention

Landless People’s Movement (LPM) leader Bernadus Swartbooi has urged his party members to intensify their collective efforts throughout the country to secure positive freedoms for Namibians.He said this during the party’s national convention, held on Saturday morning, urging members to take up positions on issues and advocate for change.“We are enlarging the space for positive freedom to be exercised, where people are able to better organise their lives and those of their families. People need not fear the political elite, who impose negative freedom on the citizenry. If you speak out, you are doomed. We are breaking that wall of silence, that wall of fear,” he said.Learn the lessonHe encouraged his members by pointing to the historic defeat of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, which has lost its majority.“We must seek to occupy and thereby deepen and further the inevitable work for the restoration of the dignity of all our people. We must do all we must for the coming general elections.”Swartbooi stressed that the now-defeated liberation party, a sister party of the ruling Swapo in Namibia, could not govern alone as they did not win the elections as in previous years.“They had to enter into alliances to preserve their seat at the table. And therefore, the lesson to us all again is to take the work seriously in the alternative parties, because the time and the season is approaching when the alternatives can ascend to the political throne, and to do the work of the people justly, fairly and with extraordinary dedication."jemima@namibiansun.com

Swartbooi calls for action at LPM convention

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Namibian Sun 2025-04-28

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