Two decades into Independence, Namibia continues to display deeply entrenched social divides. SWAPO, as former liberation movement and now dominant party, has transformed controlled change into changed control. As Henning Melber writes here, having their "own" government has not meaningfully improved the material conditions of the majority of the people. Instead, an elite pact has replaced settler colonialism to benefit only a relative few of the "previously disadvantaged" while a large majority continues to be marginalized. "A luta continua" - the slogan of the struggle days - has been translated, in popular parlance, into the formulation: "the looting continues".

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