IMAGE: Namibia Truth Verify / New Period Newspaper
The ruling celebration presidential candidate has repeated the declare that the determine is within the manifesto at a rally within the north over the weekend
The ruling celebration’s candidate for the presidential election of 27 November 2024, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, acknowledged that the ruling celebration authorities would spend about N$85 billion over the following 5 years to create “greater than 500,000 jobs”.
Her direct phrases on the rally at Eenhana within the Ohangwena Area on Saturday, 16 November 2024, had been:
“It’s true, and that’s the reason in our election manifesto we put it in black and white. That … (inaudible) we are going to spend N$85 billion for job creation. And we’re going to create greater than 500,000 jobs.”
A recording of her saying this can be listened to here.
Nonetheless, this was not the primary time that Nandi-Ndaitwah had uttered the identical determine and mentioned that it was within the Swapo Get together manifesto, for she made the identical declare at a rally in the Zambezi Region just a few weeks earlier.
Moreover, media reporting on her assertion and the determine sparked confusion on Monday, 16 November 2024, when differing figures had been reported by completely different information organisations. The state-owned New Period newspaper wrongly reported that Nandi-Ndaitwah had mentioned the ruling celebration authorities would create “5 000 jobs in five years”, whereas different media, corresponding to The Namibian, reported the figure mentioned by the party’s presidential candidate correctly.
The details
That mentioned, each the ruling celebration candidate and the media reporting of the “greater than 500,000 jobs” in 5 years declare are at odds with what is definitely within the Swapo Get together manifesto.
The Swapo Party manifesto states that the following authorities, to be headed by Nandi-Ndaitwah, would spend N$85.7 billion to create precisely 256,538 jobs throughout varied sectors of the economic system. That is how the manifesto units out the celebration’s job creation ‘dedication’, on the twenty seventh web page of the doc:
Swapo response
Namibia Truth Verify reached out to the Swapo Get together to request a clarification as as to whether the celebration’s presidential candidate misspoke when she mentioned the celebration’s manifesto acknowledged that “greater than 500,000 jobs” can be created over the following 5 years. Clarification was additionally sought on the place the “greater than 500,000 jobs” determine truly got here from that Nandi-Ndaitwah has now proclaimed from a minimum of two election marketing campaign platforms.
On 20 November 2024, Namibia Truth Verify reached out to Swapo Get together info secretary Hilma Nikanor through WhatsApp with this clarification request. Nonetheless, thus far no response has been obtained from Nikanor.
On 21 November 2024, Namibia Truth Verify additionally reached out through WhatsApp to the deputy secretary normal of the celebration, Uahekua Herunga, with the identical request. Additionally, thus far no response has been obtained.
Namibia Truth Verify will replace this report if and when a response is obtained from the ruling celebration officers approached on this regard.
Primarily based on what Namibia Truth Verify has established, the declare that has now been repeated by the ruling celebration’s presidential candidate, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, that the Swapo Get together manifesto states that “greater than 500,000 jobs” will likely be created over the following 5 years, is clearly false.
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That is an output of and for the Elections Truth Checking Coalition of Namibian media and civil society companions combating election-related misinformation.
