CoD's long goodbye kiss

In the Namibian political context, CoD definitely does not stand for 'cash on delivery'. But what the now ailing and all but irrelevant Congress of Democrats did promise to deliver, at its genesis, was a truly reconciled Namibia built around the aspirations of its world-class constitution.
Ashley Smith
They say a week is a long time in politics, as it ebbs and flows in this or that direction, but in the same breath Namibia's amnesiac voters seem to have forgotten the history of t
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