Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah urged the roughly 1.5 million registered voters to get to the polls before they close at 9:00 pm (1900 GMT).
Namibia’s vice president was among the first to vote in elections Wednesday that could see her become the desert nation’s first woman leader, even as her ruling SWAPO party faces the strongest challenge yet to its 34-year grip on power.
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, a 72-year-old veteran of the South West Africa People’s Organisation, cast her ballot in the capital Windhoek as polls opened with long queues outside many polling stations in the sparsely populated country.
South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) presidential candidate Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah casts her ballot at the Emma Hoogenhout Primary school polling station in Hochland Park, Windhoek, on November 27, 2024 during Namibia’s general election. (Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP)
She urged the roughly 1.5 million registered voters to get to the polls before they close at 9:00 pm (1900 GMT).
