The candidates of the South West African People’s Organization Party (Swapo) appear as favorites to win next Wednesday’s elections in which 15 political groups will dispute the first office and the seats in parliament.

The probable victory of Nandi-Ndaitwah would be a socio-political quantum leap in Namibia, a former German colony entrusted after the defeat of Berlin in World War I in trust to South Africa when the system of racially separate development or apartheid was in force in that country.

The collapse of the South African white minority government after its defeat in Angola and the independence of the former Portuguese colonies in Africa favored in 1990 the independence and the access to power of the Swapo, which fought against the South African occupation, and its leader, Sam Nujoma, to the first post.

In the history of the struggle of the independence fighters against the South African occupation, the air attack against the Namibian refugee camp of Kassinga, in the south of Angola, in which 624 people were killed, including children and women, and 611 wounded, according to official data, appears as an infamous example of apartheid.

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