SWAPO Democrats

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The SWAPO Democrats were a splinter-group of SWAPO in Namibia formed in 1978. SWAPO-D was formed by a group that had left SWAPO in 1976. The leaders of SWAPO-D were Andreas Shipanga and Emil Appolus.

SWAPO-D were generally seen by SWAPO as traitors and collaborators with the apartheid regime. In the mid-1980's SWAPO-D joined the Transitional Government. In the 1989 elections, SWAPO-D failed to win any seat, and was disbanded.