NAMIBIA is to have its first female leader after Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was declared the winner of last week’s presidential election.

The voting was tarnished by technical glitches that caused a three-day extension to allow ballots to be cast, a decision branded illegal by opposition parties.

Ms Nandi-Ndaitwah won with 57 per cent of the vote, followed by the candidate of the main opposition Independent Patriots for Change with 25.5 per cent, the electoral authority announced on Tuesday.