At an ordinary activists assembly which took place in Outapi town recently a Community Activist Council Executive (CACE) of the Affirmative Repositioning was elected.
The assembly was organised by Affirmative Repositioning (AR) activists based in the town and surrounding villages. The local activists assembled with the aim of electing the AR community leadership in order to enable the movement to set up a fully-functional AR community structure which operates as an entry point for any activist taking up membership in the AR movement.
As stipulated the AR constitution, that “a community is a basic organ of Affirmative Repositioning movement where membership activities occur as an entry point into AR”.
The constitution also stated that “The Community shall be established where the people reside, and the minimum requirement for an AR community shall be 50 people”.
The elective activist assembly was organised by Activist Petrus Shiweva and other activists who are serving in the interim Regional Activist Council for Omusati region.
The Affirmative Repositioning movement is a radical-leftist revolutionary voluntary organisation uniting social justice activists that seek to quarantine and liquidate the capitalist and neo-liberal order that characterise the post-colonial Namibia.
In realising that grassroots communities in Namibia represent the zones of struggle from where fearless activists must emerge and organise to decisively solve the burning national land and housing question and other socioeconomic malaise in Namibia, the AR has established itself in Outapi town as a young radical voice of the voiceless.
The newly elected members of the Community Activist Council Executive (CACE) are Activist Petrus Shiweva (Chairperson), Activist Johanna Petrus (Head of secretariat and organising), Activist Michael Aitembu (Head of resources and Accountability), Activist Joseph Nekondo (Head of Information and Perspective), Activist Nicodemus and Activist Shivute Kaapanda.
These six duly nominated and legally elected activists will serve in the Community Activists Council Executive (CACE) for the next two years.
The AR being a movement recently registered a political party of which the AR movement is a mother body. In the recent presidential and national elections the AR party managed to secure six seats in the National Assembly, becoming the 3rd largest political party in Namibia.
In his speech as a newly elected chairperson of the Outapi AR Community Activist Council Executive Activist Petrus Shiweva on behalf of the council appealed for unity of purpose and activist discipline in the AR movement as well as teamwork and revolutionary morality to the newly elected leaders in the council as well as to the whole AR community in Outapi.
Various AR communities are being setup countrywide in preparation for the upcoming regional and local authority elections scheduled for November this year.
In the photo: The elected AR’s CACE for Outapi town, seated from the right are Activist Petrus Shiweva (Chairperson), Activist Johanna Petrus (Head of secretariat and organising), Activist Michael Aitembu (Head of resources and Accountability), Activist Joseph Nekondo (Head of Information and Perspective), Activist Nicodemus and Activist Shivute Kaapanda.
