Background
Mudge, a White Namibian, was born in Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa. He is the son of Republican Party founder Dirk Mudge.
Mudge, a White Namibian, was born in Otjiwarongo, Otjozondjupa. He is the son of Republican Party founder Dirk Mudge.
In mid-2003 Mudge launched an effort to revive the Republican Party as an independent organization, and he resigned from the Regional Council on June 30, 2003. Delta Tau Alpha President Katuutire Kaura denounced Mudge"s move to separate the Republican Party from the Delta Tau Alpha, saying that Mudge acted unilaterally and illegally, and he said that Mudge had "expelled himself" from the Delta Tau Alpha through his actions. Kaura claimed that Mudge wanted to create a party solely for "previously advantaged" minority Namibians.
In the November 2004 parliamentary election, he was elected to the National Assembly.
He also stood as the Republican Party"s candidate in the presidential election, receiving 1.95% of the vote. In the November 2009 parliamentary election, Mudge was re-elected to the National Assembly as the party"s only representative.
In the concurrent presidential election, Mudge received 1.16% of the vote, placing seventh out of 12 candidates. The party appointed Clara Gowases, who was ranked second on the party"s electoral list in the 2009 election, to replace him.
He was the party"s only member of the National Assembly of Namibia from 2004 to 2011, when he resigned. The younger Mudge was a founding member of the Republican Party in 1977. The party joined the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (Delta Tau Alpha) in the same year, and Mudge held a seat on the Khomas Regional Council from 1992 to 2003 as a member of the Delta Tau Alpha, representing Windhoek West constituency.
Mudge became the President of the Republican Party, as well as a member of its National Executive Committee, in 2003.
In September 2010, Mudge and eight other opposition politicians were sworn-in as members of the National Assembly following a six-month boycott due to electoral irregularities in the 2009 election. In March 2011, Mudge resigned as both a member of the National Assembly and as the President of the Republican Party.