The anonymous letters which are widely distributed via e-mail since nearly two years by a certain Ananias Nghifitikeko were coming from outside SWAPO and were a national security risk, said party president Sam Nujoma on Thursday. At a short media briefing at the SWAPO head office on Thursday morning attended by President Hifikepunye Pohamba, 8 Cabinet ministers, the Speaker of Parliament, unionists and the usual "rent-a-crowd" members, Nujoma said the author(s) of such letters were bent "to cause hate and divisions within SWAPO". Instead, the letters came from "those who were against independence", he said. Contracting himself however, he went on to say that "these elements are not SWAPO members. They are deceptive elements within SWAPO working for the interests of the enemies of (the) Namibian people" and were reactionaries and counter-revolutionaries. The ruling party would overcome the latest "onslaughts" by the enemies of Namibia and of all African people and emerge victorious as was done with the "previous Vorster and Botha regimes". The writers and distributors of hate letters had "become a national security threat, which must be nipped in the bud", Nujoma said, thus hinting strongly that white people were possibly writing the e-mails.

He also took a swipe at reporters and said "the media never tell the truth, never! You only tell lies!". Asked by PLUS what would happen if the writers of the hate e-mails was indeed a SWAPO member, Nujoma said, the courts would deal with such a person, similar to the persons who were arrested recently after carrying a poster with the slogan "Kill all Whites!"