COD

Other political candidates in the same election were Festus Shaduva of the Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF), Elias Iiyambo of the Congress of Democrats and Rebekka Kambayi of the Southwest Africa National Union (SWANU).

Others are Alhaji Isabi Dansaki, Mass Movement of Nigeria, Ikechukwu Nwokeafor, Advanced Congress of Democrats; Alistar Shoyode, Yes Party; Charles Ughalli, Advanced Nigeria Democratic Party; Kenneth Ibe Kalu, United Peoples Congress; Comrade Isiaka Paul Ebili, Nigeria Element Progressives Party, and Robinson Apu, National Democratic Liberty Party.

She was a liberationstruggle veteran, campaigner for women's rights and the founding member of the Congress of Democrats (CoD).

Among the political parties that signed the agreement are the Action Alliance, Alliance for Democracy, Africa Democratic Party, Action Democratic Party, All Grand Alliance Party, Action Peoples Party and Advanced Congress of Democrats.

A classic example of the opposition's reactionary tendencies was exhibited by the Congress of Democrats Party President, Ben Ulenga when he recently called for the government to refund parents who had paid for their children's pre-primary and primary education since independence.

He convincingly shows that the CPSA and then SACP were far more heterogeneous organisations than some accounts suggest, and that the Congress of Democrats was neither born nor functioned as a front group for the Party.

In Namibia, we seem always to catch the political cold of Zimbabwe, because soon after the formation of the MDC in Zimbabwe, we witnessed the formation of the Congress of Democrats (COD) in 1999.

The Liberal Party was formed in 1953 as a non-racial political party by a small group of whites who, on the one hand, were alienated by the complicity of the United Party in the racist policies of the National Party government, and on the other rejected communism which was prevalent within the Congress of Democrats. During its early years it was largely a white party advocating a qualified franchise and dedicated to working for change through constitutional channels, in the mould of the old Cape Liberal tradition.

It concentrates on three organisation - the Communist Party of South Africa, the Springbok Legion, and the Congress of Democrats - which were focal points for white opposition to apartheid.

Congress of Democrats (CoD), Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF), Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), Southwest Africa National Union (SWANU), Swapo and an independent candidate participate in the by-election.

AS agitation for political offices in the forthcoming general elections heightens, a coalition of various Women groups from the 20 local government areas of Bauchi have asked all the gubernatorial candidate for the 2019 gubernatorial elections in the State to step aside and allow the only female governorship candidate under the platform of the Action Congress of Democrats (ACD), Hajiya Baheejah Mahmood Abdullahi to become the first female Governor of state and in Nigeria.

Seven of the nine parties currently in Parliament - the All People's Party (APP), Congress of Democrats (CoD), DTA, NUDO, Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP), Swapo Party, and UDF-subscribe to gender equity and the prominence of women in politics.