The Seoposengwe Party was a

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, representing the

Tswana Tswana may refer to: * Tswana people, the Bantu speaking people in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other Southern Africa regions * Tswana language, the language spoken by the (Ba)Tswana people * Bophuthatswana, the former ba ...

minority in rural eastern Namibia. The party emerged from the ''Tswana Alliance'', a group participating at the

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between 1975 and 1977. In 1980 the Tswana Alliance was renamed ''Seoposengwe Party'', and joined the

Democratic Turnhalle Alliance The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), formerly the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), is an amalgamation of political parties in Namibia, registered as one singular party for representation purposes. In coalition with the United Democratic ...

in the same year. Its only leader was

Constance Kgosiemang Constance Letang Kgosiemang (5 April 1946 – 16 August 2012) was the paramount chief of the Tswana people in Namibia, a parliamentarian, and the leader of the Seoposengwe Party until its merger into the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA). K ...

, paramount chief of the Tswana. Deputy party president during this time was Gregory Tibinyane. In February 1981 the Ipelegeng Democratic Party (IDP) split off under the leadership of

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. A further split in 1986 resulted in the formation of the

Mmabatho People's Party The Mmabatho People's Party (MPP) was a political party in South West Africa, today's Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders ...

, led by

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