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SWAPO
     
SWAPO
the South-West Africa People's Organization
a political party which began when Namibia was called South West Africa, and which sometimes used violence to achieve its aim. When Namibia finally gained its independence from South Africa, SWAPO won the first free elections there in 1989, and won power again in the 1994 elections.
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