Talk:SWAPO

message: I don't really know enough about SWAPO to know if this is written in a NPOV, but it seems a little suspect - anyone know a bit more about this organization? --81.134.153.235 22:53, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It may not be perfect, but lacking further details about what is "suspect", and lacking further input over the past month, I'm going to remove the npov tag. It looks potentially fair to me; here's a military force that fought for independence, did some bad stuff, and runs the country now.  CDC (talk) 18:15, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: The link to the official website was broken, so I removed it --Werdna648 12:39, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed broken link 

message: wasn't connected to the lives of future Namibians not in exile.
What does this mean?  I think it's potentially POV. aliceinlampyland 11:26, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: "The Norwegian government began giving aid directly to SWAPO in 1974." The way it's written, it looks like the Norwegian government is still giving them aid. I find this hard to believe; more likely, they gave them aid during the liberation struggle, and now that Namibia is democratic, Norway gives aid to the government rather than one political party. LittleDantalk 04:04, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norwegian aid 

message: "Some say SWAPO was responsible for human rights abuses against its own cadres during the period of exile. The most serious of these was the detainee issue, which remains a divisive issue"
I've tagged these two sentences as using weasel words ("Some say" is a classic example). I know that the ANC was found guilty of torturing/killing some of its members who were suspected of being spies, so it wouldn't surprise me if SWAPO did the same thing. However, we do need to find a citation for this. Pjones (talk) 11:59, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Weasel Words

message: Move Parsecboy (talk) 01:20, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There are tons of articles with names much longer and cumbersome than this one. However, you do raise a valid point. As the governing electoral party, the name "SWAPO Party of Namibia" is used. The liberation movement was properly called the "South West Africa People's Organisation." The question should be whether to split this article into two to reflect these quite distinct roles —Sesel (talk) 21:36, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would disagree with the idea of splitting the article into liberation movement and political party. SWAPO has been the acronym used throughout both liberation and independence. SWAPO is the most commonly used name in all media sources.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 13:52, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

text: For what it is worth, "SWAPO" turns up 171,000 google hits, while "South West Africa People's Organization" turns up only 27,000. Yet another reason to move it.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 14:29, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I also think that we should make it SWAPO. Everyone calls it SWAPO. All books Ive read about the Border War in Angola also refer to them as SWAPO.Slapsnot (talk) 21:24, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Potential move to SWAPO?

message: For being an article on a major political party, it says very little about their political standpoints. Apparently it's affiliated with Socialist International. That's about it. More? /Julle (talk) 04:52, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It is really hard to say what SWAPO stands for. Generally, you can argue that since independence, they have followed primarily a mainstream, market-oriented growth strategy favorable to the IMF and other multilateral organizations. We could mention the foreign policy of trying to embrace Zimbabwe, China and the US at the same time.--TM 04:57, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL. Its structure is communist, its words are conservative, and its deeds are somewhere between liberal and corrupt. Hard to find any reliable sources evaluating their politics, though--you cannot really take the word of the opposition without a pinch of salt, you don't want to cite sources near ANC or ZANU-PF, and who else writes about it?--Pgallert (talk) 12:01, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: While just a column, this may be enlightening. This is a more academic source, though it is from 1997. Henning Melber is always a good source for critique of SWAPO as well. Enjoy--TM 12:09, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Politics? 

message: Is it accurate to call Swapo centre left? Isn't it more like left, or even far left?203.184.41.226 (talk) 07:04, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Their words are far left, their actions are right-wing liberal. Take your pick. --Pgallert (talk) 16:12, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

text: I'm not aware of any nationalisation. In fact, several important companies are owned by SWAPO, not by the government. To be frank, except within the party itself I don't see anything dictatorial either. Elections are reasonably credible. "Right-wing liberal" might not be the scientific term, I'm not an expert there. But for as long as it is somewhat legal they certainly enrich themselves with not the slightest consideration of the man on the ground, that's what I meant, --Pgallert (talk) 20:37, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Centre-left 

message: When was SWAPO banned in SWA? Where they even illegal (as organisation)? --41.151.40.158 (talk) 15:23, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting question. I don't think they were ever banned but I can't give a source for that. --Pgallert (talk) 20:37, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  banned in SWA? 

message: Please note I merged the article Namibia Today into this one. See the talk page here. Revilovs (talk) 20:24, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging of 'Namibia Today' article to SWAPO 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I'm new to this subject and found that Anton made some impact to SWAPO history, but there is no word about him in this article. 
"He was a member of the SWAPO. In 1989 he was assassinated by operatives of South Africa’s Civil Cooperation Bureau"
I think it will be nice if someone more in the subject could improve it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Lubowski  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2168:818:654:0:0:0:2 (talk) 00:37, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anton Lubowski? 

message: The addition of statism in the infobox as well as the source attributed to it might neglect the acctual meaning of the term, which simply implies that the government has a hand in social and economic affairs, by which definition most governments may be regarded as statist! Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 09:53, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Statism

message: What is the status of the Afrikaans and German names at the start of the article? Are they officially used by SWAPO or in government documents? Docentation (talk) 09:29, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Pretty much everyone uses the acronym SWAPO today, or the official name, 'Swapo party' (no capitalisation). The Afrikaans and German names have historical significance and were mostly used before independence. Nobody uses the German/Afrikaans acronym SWAVO. --Pgallert (talk) 07:51, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status of Afrikaans and German names