Swapo Politburo to decide future of mouthpiece

The future of the Swapo mouthpiece Namibia Today, which was last published in June 2015, will soon be decided by the party’s highest decision-making body.
The party will look at restructuring the management of the publication and according to Swapo spokesperson Helmut Angula the party would want the publication to be managed by young, energetic and knowledgeable staff.
Angula said the other reason for the appointment of new staff for the mouthpiece is because some of the editorial staff filled other positions in the party and somewhere else and therefore there is a need to appoint new young and energetic staff.
“The time has come when we need more young, energetic people, knowledgeable and new technology will be used in the publication of Namibia Today,” Angula said.
Namibian Sun understands that the party might remove newspaper editor Asser Ntinda and replace him with Sackey Namugongo, who now works as an advisor to Swapo secretary-general Nangolo Mbumba.
Contacted for comment Ntinda said he knew nothing about being replaced.
Asked why the mouthpiece has not been published for over a year, Ntinda said it was because of computer problems.
“The computers we had crashed and that’s why Namibia Today was not published,” he said.
Ntinda said the party recently bought new computers and promised that the next edition of Namibia Today would be published soon.

KENYA KAMBOWE