ZIMBABWE’S sky-scouring President Robert Mugabe has left for Windhoek, Namibia this Friday to attend the inauguration of President Hage Geingob. He has only just returned from Japan.
As usual he has taken with him a large entourage of hangers on. President Geingob is Namibia’s 3rd head of state after founding fathers Sam Nujoma and Hifikepunye Pohamba, both from the Ovambo people.
Namibia celebrates its independence Silver Jubilee on Saturday and the occasion coincides with the inauguration of the new president.
President elect Geingob received 87 percent of the total votes cast, romping to victory in the November 2014 Presidential and National Assembly elections.
The winning percentage is the highest ever by SWAPO since independence.
Nine political parties took part in the presidential elections while 16 political parties participated in the National Assembly polls in which SWAPO got 80 percent.