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Namibia's new president was sworn in on Friday to lead a country facing high rates of unemployment, inequality and poverty.

And she will be dealing with it with the additional burden of being only Africa's second-ever directly elected female president and Namibia's first female head of state.

"If things go well then it will be seen as a good example," Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told BBC's Africa Daily podcast. "But if anything then happens, like it can happen in any istration under men, there are also those who would rather say: 'Look at women!'"

The 72-year-old won November's election with a 58% share of the vote.

Nandi-Ndaitwah has been a long-term loyalist of the South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo) – which has been in power since the country gained independence in 1990 after a long struggle against apartheid South Africa.

She ed Swapo, then a liberation movement resisting South Africa's white-minority rule, when she was only 14.

While the party has made changes and improved the lives of the black majority, the legacy of apartheid can still be seen in patterns of wealth and land ownership.

"Truly, land is a serious problem in this country," she told the BBC ahead of the inauguration.

"We still have some white citizens and more particularly the absent land owners who are occupying the land."

She adds that she is committed to the "willing-buyer, willing-seller" principle, which means no-one is forced to sell up.

Namibia is a geographically large country with a small population of three million.

Government statistics show that white farmers own about 70% of the country's farmland. A total of 53,773 Namibians identified as white in the 2023 census, representing 1.8% of the country's population.

Namibia is one of the world's most unequal countries, with a Gini coefficient of 59.1 in 2015, according to the World Bank, which projects poverty is expected to remain high at 17.2% in 2024.

The unemployment rate rose to 36.9% in 2023 from 33.4% in 2018, according to the country's statistics agency.

Nandi-Ndaitwah said the economy, which partly relies on mineral exports, should work more on adding value to what the country extracts from the ground rather than exporting raw materials.

She also wants Namibia to focus more on creative industries and get the education sector to adjust to new economic realities.

Nandi-Ndaitwah is only the second African woman to be directly elected as president, after Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

The continent's only other female president at the moment is Tanzania's Samia Suluhu Hassan, who took up the role after her predecessor died in office in 2021.

Nandi-Ndaitwah wants to be judged on her merits, but she said that it was a "good thing that we as countries are realising that just as men [can do], women can also
hold the position of authority".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8ln5g12wo

Congratulations to her and the people of Namibia

And nigeria is yet to have a female governor, not to talk of president

our women should get involved in politics and leave social media

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In November 2006, the then Deputy governor to Peter obi Virginia Etiaba was made the governor in Anambra state for three months when peter obi was impeached, she remains the only female governor in Nigeria

Thank God Tinubu was not there......

Good

Naija will never do this!..

Wahala for that country

Other countries have left Nigeria behind

Tonto dike will be our first female president

I love Namibia

women have no place in politics.. namibia i been dey plan to go now will turn to zoo geria.. chai

K

Congratulations to them but this should not happen to Nigeria cos our ladies/women are evil

Good from the the desert people of the south of Africa

I have all. Baltasar Ebang Engonga complete 400 videos, his wife scandals too and several similar 5€x scandals gathered within 9ja are plenty with me. Get them and joli yourself . They are good 4 warming body. C.h.a.t Now

This woman can perform more than Tinubu

Wish her all the best

They do very badly. Nothing to see here

That’s good.

God1000:
Congratulations to her and the people of Namibia

And nigeria is yet to have a female governor, not to talk of president

Obi would have been Nigeria’s first female president, if not for those tribalistic ronu people

God1000:
Congratulations to her and the people of Namibia

And nigeria is yet to have a female governor, not to talk of president

Even America that has practice democracy for close to 300years is yet to have a female president.

Another Geriatric president.

Her presidency not only represents a personal achievement but also serves as an inspiration for women and marginalized groups, reinforcing the importance of diverse representation in governance.

Spits!

What a shame to the men

Who is their senate president, just checking

This woman looks older than Tinubu

God1000:
Congratulations to her and the people of Namibia

And nigeria is yet to have a female governor, not to talk of president

It's not about having a female president...

Will she be different from the wereys of the opposite gender who lack vision and thirst for greatness?

Smh

Way to go Madam President

The real African queen 👑 herself. Most feminists definitely can't relate.

They are finished.
African woman will use national resources to purchase gold, silver, pant & bra

Sirmwill:
Thank God Tinubu was not there......

You keep seeing Tinubu in your dreams.


There is no peace for the wicked.

Congratulations to her