Swapo President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has voiced disappointment with the ill-discipline of party members, petitions against branch elections, and self-serving agendas of members in response to concerns about the recent parliamentary committee elections. 

Nandi-Ndaitwah, who was speaking at the party's 65th birthday celebrations at Kamanjab in the Kunene Region, viewed these acts as a betrayal of the party's forward-looking agendas.

Nandi-Ndaitwah particularly voiced her disappointment with the election to the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Defence, Security, and International Relations, where some Swapo Party members voted for an opposition party member as a deputy chairperson.

"What a betrayal to the nation and party. That is unacceptable . As your leader, I must tell you that, for me, as I stand now, members of that committee are all suspected of having sold the party. However, let the real sellouts' consciousness discipline them. It's really painful that for five years, you have sold that committee. Why did we send you there, to serve the party, and now what you are doing is different?"
The party president further expressed worry over the ill-discipline of members whose agendas, according to her, are self-serving.

"We are losing our focus on serving our people and wanting to serve ourselves. I have come to realise that many of our people think only about themselves. If I am not there, no one should be there. That attitude, our fourth president has been continuously warning us against such attitudes. Some people who call themselves Swapo members are not really Swapo members. They are joining the party to serve themselves, and we must find a way to safeguard against these intruders. This is a party that wants to serve the nation."

On the petition of calls to nullify branch elections due to alleged irregularities, Ndaitwah had this to say.

"Due to our self-serving politics, our party is becoming a party of petitions, one after the other, and deliberately delaying the execution of our constitutional requirements. Since independence, the National Congress has been taking place every five years without a failure, but why are you comrades at the branch levels, at the district levels, and at the section levels, sometimes for the whole year, not renewing your mandates? You just want to be sitting in the offices illegally. As your leader, that practice must come to an end. Every time someone asks you to renew your mandate, you dismiss it as a witch hunt. Who is witch-hunting you?"

She, however, applauded the party's high female representation in key positions in parliament, cabinet and party levels.