Opposition what opposition?

Now that the dust of the national election has settled, the fact that will strike most outside observers is the total dominance of Swapo, who took more or less 80% of the vote, and the multitudinous opposition parties who shared the remaining crumbs between them. This is not good for democracy, as, from the outside again, it makes Namibia look like a banana republic in which the vote is ridiculously rigged in favour of a ruling junta, whereas everyone knows the vote is free and fair: it is just that the opposition is rubbish.
As the nominal runner-up in the presidential race, McHenry Venaani admitted, the ambition of so-called opposition politicians is not to advance alternative paths for the country, but simply to get a parliamentary seat, again, not as a platform for their political voice, but simply to be assured of a nice pension and a seat on the gravy train.
Alarmingly, some of the 'parties' seem quite satisfied with their sub 1% support from the electorate.  What are they there for?  There was no NBC debate between presidential candidates, and without trawling some old documents or obscure websites, it is impossible to know what these parties actually stand for, if anything.  What would they do, differently from SWAPO?  Mostly, they seem to be ethnically or regionally based, and date from the pre-independence political era.  So to someone versed in Namibian political history, these parties may have some cultural origin or meaning, and have a vaguely socialist political flavour, but to an outsider they are incomprehensible.
The only glimmer of hope (from the opposition point of view) is that these parties over the weekend schedules a closed door meeting.  It should have been done long before the election.  Hopefully, the intent, although it is very doubtful if it will be realised, is to forge a common policy and name - maybe a Democratic Alliance, along the South Africa model, based on an open market economy, totally non-racially based, and with a commitment to combat corruption,  Such a united alliance may have some political prospects and hope,  Otherwise the Namibian opposition will be doomed to irrelevance.