583:, and Hamutenya subsequently faced pressure from within the party to retire. He said in March 2015 that he was retiring, leaving the way open for the party to elect a new leader, although he shortly afterward claimed he had been forced to retire against his will. He attempted to claim a parliamentary seat when the National Assembly began meeting for its new term in March 2015 but later opted against taking a seat paving the way for his return to SWAPO.
474:; at the UNIN, Hamutenya was deputy director and head of the History and Political Science department from 1976 to 1981. From 1978 to 1989, he was part of SWAPO's negotiating team for the UN Plan for Namibian independence, and he was SWAPO's secretary of information and publicity from 1981 to 1991.
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The RDP's rapid advance was followed by an equally rapid plummet in the 2014 elections when it failed to make any inroads and lost the title of
Official Opposition to the DTA of Namibia by attracting 3,51 % of the vote against SWAPO's 80,01%. Hamutenya received the 13th highest number of
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on 27 August 2002 in a cabinet reshuffle. Hamutenya made political upheavals in the second part of the new millennium when he left the Swapo party and founded the Rally for
Democracy and Progress which performed well as a fledgling party in its first elections in 2009 by becoming the official
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Hidipo Hamutenya was one of the leading diplomats of the struggle for the
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598:. He supervised the composition of Namibia's
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802:List of members of the Constituent Assembly
748:"Hidipo Hamutenya: A legacy for the nation"
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