The SWAPO Party Youth League (SPYL) is the youth wing of the South West Africa People's Organization.

In 2007, SPYL called protests against a visit by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...

 "reactionary and unpatriotic".

In August 2008, SPYL called on President Hifikepunye Pohamba

Hifikepunye Pohamba

Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba is the second and current President of Namibia. He won the 2004 and 2009 presidential elections overwhelmingly as the candidate of the South West Africa People's Organisation ruling party, taking office in March 2005. He has also been the President of SWAPO since...

 to create a Ministry of Religion so that the government can support Christian Churches in support Namibia's poor. In the same statement, the SYL called for a reduction in benefits to the heads of parastatals and for a dialogue with White Namibian

Whites in Namibia

White Namibians are people of European or Southern African birth or descent living in Namibia. Most white Namibians are Afrikaners, while some are descended from German, Portuguese, or English immigrants.- Distribution :...

 youth.

Notable people

• Jerry Ekandjo
  Jerry Ekandjo
  Jerry Ekandjo is a Namibian politician, currently serving as Minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development....
  
  , Government minister; member of SPYL from 1963-79
• Paulus Kapia
  Paulus Kapia
  Paulus Kapia is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Kapia was first elected to the National Assembly of Namibia in 2005. Kapia was a member of SWAPO's military wing in exile, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia as a political commissar...
  
  , Secretary for SPYL & Member of Central Committee; member of 4th National Assembly of Namibia
• Kazenambo Kazenambo
  Kazenambo Kazenambo
  Kazenambo Kazenambo is a Namibian politician. A member of SWAPO, Kazenambo was first elected to the 4th National Assembly of Namibia in 2005. Following the election, President Pohamba appointed Kazenambo as the Deputy Minister of Regional, Local Government and Housing and Rural Development behind...
  
  , Member of the SPYL Central Committee from 1991-2002; member of the 4th National Assembly
• Charles Ndaxu Namoloh
  Charles Ndaxu Namoloh
  Major General Charles Dickson Ndaxu Phillip Namoloh is a Namibian diplomat, politician and military figure. Beginning in 2005, Namoloh has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia, as well as the defense minister of the country....
  
  , Defenise minister of Namibia since 2005, fled to Zambia with SPYL in 1974
• Pohamba Shifeta
  Pohamba Shifeta
  Pohamba Shifeta is a Namibian politician. A member of the National Assembly of Namibia since 2005, Shifeta is a member of SWAPO. At the time of his election to the National Assembly, Shifeta was chosen as the Deputy Secretary of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture...
  
  , Deputy Minister of Youth, National Service, Sport and Culture since 2005
• Ignatius Shixwameni
  Ignatius Shixwameni
  Ignatius Nkotongo Shixwameni is a Namibian politician. He is the leader of the All People's Party.-Early life and education:...
  
  , leader from 1987-99
• Piet van der Walt
  Piet van der Walt
  Piet van der Walt is a Namibian businessperson and politician. A White Afrikaner Namibian, van der Walt began associating with SWAPO in a business capacity following independence in 1990. He was placed on the parliamentary list for SWAPO at number 42 prior to the 2009 National Assembly election and...
  
  , businessperson
• Peya Mushelenga
  Peya Mushelenga
  Peya Mushelenga is a Namibian politician and poet. A member of SWAPO, Mushelenga has been a member of the National Assembly of Namibia since the 2004 elections and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, since 21 March 2010. He joined the movement for liberation of Namibia in 1984, at the age of 9...
  
  , Member of the National Assembly
• Elijah Ngurare
  Elijah Ngurare
  -About Ngurare:Tjitunga Elijah Ngurare is a Namibian politician, He is currently the secretary general of the SWAPO Party Youth League and his term will end in 2012.since 2007.-Education:...
  
  , Secretary General of SPYL 2007 to present.