Authors from SADC countries co-authored a book titled "Dominant Parties as Governments in Southern Africa: Their changing nature and its implications for democracy and democratic consolidation".

The book provides a research basis for students as well as policymakers.

The book covers case studies on Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Angola, Mozambique, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe.

It captures the changing narratives and political dynamics in the Southern African context, honing in on former liberation movements turned governing parties.

The book, which took about two years to complete, consists of two chapters on Namibia: the liberation movement from government to government without liberation and democracy under the governance of SWAPO from 1990 to 2015.

The Namibia-based chapters also touch on the country's social change, the state of the economy, unemployment, and those living in poverty, election results and challenges faced by political parties, the breakdown of dominance, intra-party fractions, and breakaways.

The book further sheds light in depth on the difficulties that Southern African nations encountered in carrying out their individual journeys and forms of democratisation after liberation.

The Executive Director at the Institute for Public Policy Research, Graham Hopwood, says the book hopes to contribute towards enhancing knowledge of the current political discourse in the region.