The Landless People's Movement (LPM) is a
political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or po ...
in
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
. It is led by former deputy minister of lands and resettlement
Bernadus Swartbooi
Bernadus Clinton Swartbooi (born 11 October 1977) is a Namibian politician.
Swartbooi was a Governor of the ǁKaras Region before being appointed as Namibia's deputy minister of lands and resettlement in 2015 by President Hage Geingob, a positi ...
, who serves as its president and chief change campaigner, and
Henny Seibeb, the party's deputy leader. The party has four seats in
parliament
In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. Th ...
. This 4 seats are occupied by the Party's President,
Bernadus Swartbooi
Bernadus Clinton Swartbooi (born 11 October 1977) is a Namibian politician.
Swartbooi was a Governor of the ǁKaras Region before being appointed as Namibia's deputy minister of lands and resettlement in 2015 by President Hage Geingob, a positi ...
, Mootu Utaara, Isaacks Edison and Seibeb Henry.
History
The Landless People's Movement was formed after
Bernadus Swartbooi
Bernadus Clinton Swartbooi (born 11 October 1977) is a Namibian politician.
Swartbooi was a Governor of the ǁKaras Region before being appointed as Namibia's deputy minister of lands and resettlement in 2015 by President Hage Geingob, a positi ...
, deputy minister of land reform, was fired by President
Hage Geingob
Hage Gottfried Geingob (born 3 August 1941) is a Namibian politician, serving as the third president of Namibia since 21 March 2015. Geingob was the first Prime Minister of Namibia from 1990 to 2002, and served as prime minister again from 2012 ...
in December 2016 after refusing to apologise to then Land Reform Minister
Utoni Nujoma
Utoni Daniel Nujoma (born 8 September 1952) is a Namibian politician who serves as Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Creation since March 2020. He has served in various government ministerial positions in the government s ...
, whom he accused of resettling people from other regions into the south of the country ahead of the
Nama.
Policies
Swartbooi has been a vocal advocate of land restitution and restorative justice for
landless Landlessness is the quality or state of being without land, without access to land, or without having private ownership of land. Although overlapping considerably, landlessness is not a necessary condition of poverty. In modern capitalist societies ...
Namibians who were dispossessed of their land, including indigenous communities.
The party also favours
LGBT rights
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Notably, , 3 ...
, and it plans on addressing the issues of abortion and
marijuana
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legalization. The party's youth wing is the
LPM Youth and Student Command Element.
Electoral history
National Assembly elections
References
2018 establishments in Namibia
Environmentalism in Namibia
Political parties established in 2018
Political parties in Namibia
Social democratic parties in Africa
Socialist parties in Namibia
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