(21 Mar 2025)
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Windhoek, Namibia – 21 March 2025
1. Wide Namibia President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah shaking hands with chief justice and and former president Nangolo Mbumba after being sworn in
2. Wide of guests attending inauguration
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, president of Namibia
"I therefore stand before you today with profound gratitude and a deep sense of responsibility towards the people of Namibia who placed their trust and confidence in me by electing me as the fifth president of the Republic of Namibia to lead this great nation for the next five years."
4. Wide of screen during Nandi-Ndaitwah address
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, president of Namibia
"My inauguration today is taking place against the backdrop of solid foundation that was laid by my predecessors. Our founding president, doctor Sam Nujoma who led the liberation struggle and laid a solid foundation for peace, political stability, democracy, social and economic development."
6. Wide heads of state and guests clapping hands
7. Wide Kenya President William Ruto shanking hands with Nandi-Ndaitwah
8. Wide Zambia President Hakainde Hichilema shaking hands with Nandi-Ndaitwah
9. Wide of guests attending the inauguration
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kadiva Hamutumwa, President of NEKA, the Namibia Exile Kids Association
"Comrade Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is the first female president of the republic. And we are celebrating because as women, we believe that we have actually met a huge milestone. But I want to add that we should be happy, because this is a woman who has been elected and appointed on merit. And as young women who are aspiring for leadership in whatever corners of the country, it should be about merit and not just about the fact that one is a woman, but the fact that one is competent, one is capable, and one is able to bring themselves onto the table to change the country."
11. Various exterior shots at the Namibia State House
STORYLINE:
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was sworn in as Namibia’s first female president on Friday, reaching the highest office in her land nearly 60 years after she joined the liberation movement fighting for independence from apartheid South Africa.
Her inauguration came a day after Namibia’s parliament elected its first female speaker.
Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, won the election in November to become one of just a handful of female leaders in Africa after the likes of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Joyce Banda of Malawi and Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania.
Sirleaf and Banda, now former leaders of their countries, and current Tanzania President Hassan all attended her inauguration.
Nandi-Ndaitwah’s swearing-in coincided with the 35th anniversary of Namibia’s independence, but the ceremony was switched from a soccer stadium where thousands were due to attend to the official presidential office because of heavy rain.
Nandi-Ndaitwah succeeds Nangolo Mbumba, who had stood in as Namibia’s president since February 2024 following the death in office of President Hage Geingob.
Nandi-Ndaitwah was promoted to vice president following Geingob’s death.
She is just the fifth president of Namibia, a sparsely populated nation in southwestern Africa.
The nation was a German colony until the end of World War I and then won independence from South Africa in 1990 after decades of struggle and a guerrilla war against South African forces that lasted more than 20 years.
She was the ninth of 13 children, her father was an Anglican clergyman, and she attended a mission school that she also later taught in.
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