APP targets DTA strongholds

The newly appointed secretary-general of the All People’s Party, Vincent Kanyetu, is on a mission for the party to overtake the DTA as the official opposition.
Kanyetu, who left the DTA under a cloud of suspicion, was elected at the APP’s special Central Coordinating Committee meeting at Grootfontein at the weekend.
The former DTA secretary-general boasted that he had already broken the DTA’s hold on the Mukwe Constituency in the Kavango East Region. “If the DTA does not perform we will overpower them, not only in the newspapers. I have been in the system already,” he said.
He promised to work hard and give everything to the APP, which has given him “free rein”.
“Now that I have two years to go, imagine what I can do. I will make sure DTA only has 12 votes in the Kavango regions,” he said.
According to him the party is hard at work garnering support in other regions too.
When asked about his expulsion from the DTA and how it would affect his reputation as APP SG, Kanyetu said: “It is water under the bridge.”
The APP is the second largest political party in Kavango East and West, and Kanyetu’s arrival was seen by many as a major boost for the party.
Meanwhile, the party has appealed to the Namibians to support it financially.
APP chief administrative officer Venitus Marius Goraseb said it is no secret that opposition parties are struggling financially. He added that some companies are afraid to be associated with opposition parties.
“We need the money to sustain the fragile democracy in the country,” he said.
JEMIMA BEUKES