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The Namibia National Front (NNF) was an alliance of nationalist but moderate parties 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 was formed in 1977 as a merger of the Namibia National Convention (which had been marginalized after SWAPO's departure from it) and the Namibia National Council. At the time of its formation NNF consisted of the following groups: *
Damara Council The Damara Council was a political party in Damaraland, a Bantustan in South West Africa (now Namibia). In 1977 a breakaway faction joined the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), while in 1989, the remainder of the DC was one of 8 political parties ...
* Damara Executive Committee * Federal Party *
South West African National Union The South West Africa National Union (SWANU) is a Namibian political party founded in 1959. Most of its members came from the Herero people, while fellow independence movement SWAPO was mostly an Ovambo party. The party's president is Charles ...
* Mbanderu Council * Namibia Progressive Party * Namibia Independence Party * Voice of the People Party In 1978 some groups left NNF to form
Namibia People's Liberation Front The Namibia People's Liberation Front was an alliance of moderate political parties in Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land border ...
. The NNF contested the elections for the
Constituent Assembly of Namibia Below is a list of members of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia, which became the National Assembly of Namibia upon independence in March 1990. Individual members were selected by political parties voted for in the 1989 election, the first de ...
in 1989 and won one seat which was taken by Vekuii Rukoro.


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