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SWAPO AND THE CHALLENGE FOR ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION

There has been a targeted and deliberate public discourse led by the media, commentators, political analysts and social actors, obviously lacking ideological orientation and sophistication, such that they have misinformed broader society of the main source of our social, political and economic challenges. In fact, the media has been key in misleading and misinforming broader society, peddling particular political narratives against Swapo and its government at the expense of fairness, neutrality and objectivity. They have been reduced to being proxies within political battles and factions within and without Swapo. Social and political actors have to an extent come off as labelling the poor as uneducated and incapable of thinking, especially when it comes to why the people continue to believe in Swapo as an organisation of choice, an agent of transformation, and a legitimate leader of the Namibian people and the broader society. But the people continue to stand principally and in
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A Response to the Reactionary NANSO KREC

Within the character and orientation of the national student’s movement, there has been for too long a time, fallacious, semantic and dogmatic, mistakes and blunders that have been an accepted culture that should be addressed and exposed, so as to rescind and relegate such conceptual faults and distortions, misinterpretations and misapplications and lack of political foresight to the dustbins of history. Yesterday, the 27 th July, in the afternoon, the Namibia National Students Organization (NANSO), Khomas Regional Executive Committee (KREC) released an unscientific, uninspiring, intellectually lazy and unpolished five seconds pedestrian statement, in response to counter and deter a constitutionally mobilized Annual Branch Conference informed by article 15 (9) (d), from ongoing at the University of Namibia (UNAM), main campus. It is therefore, the chief purpose of this cogent perspective to provide sober clarity, political and constitutional education, so as to lay at bay unco
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Decolonizing Miss Namibia

Our national beauty pageant marked 37 years of existence this month . A project that basks in the glory and privilege legacy of colonialism, apartheid and racism facilitated by capitalism that divides, discriminates, dominates and exploit. The implications of neo-colonialism  degrades, disempowers, misinterprets and appropriates black masculine and feminine identities. For centuries the experience of colonialization entails the dehumanization, disregard and devaluing of African people’s knowledge, roles, status and expression in the broader global popular culture. In different times and places, an elite class abuses, objectifies, sexualizes, and victimizes women, reproducing a hegemonic order of class, power, privilege and pleasure, through beauty pageants as the vehicle that parades women in bikinis, pitting them against each other for the honor of a sash/tiara. As is the standard unit, beauty is measured by contrasting and displaying female bodies, within a set class prescriptio
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Africa’s Development and Economic Crisis: Namibia in Context

Economic, social and political inclinations in Sub-Saharan Africa profoundly demonstrate the continent in multifold crises of development, with implications threatening not only the welfare and existence of broader segments of populations but the development base for future generations. As per Aina (1993), a crisis in context of development, refers to a multi-dimensional situation by which a structure begins to experience a serious breakdown in the process of reproducing itself to sustain its survival. In terms of the nature of Africa’s crisis, for Aina, is characterized by features ranging from Africa being conflict ridden, economic growth disproportionate to population growth, increasing environmental degradation, a socio-cultural malaise of the continent, and Africa’s complacent and stagnated domestic politics defined by multiparty democracies dominated by former liberation movements with centralized authoritarian tactics and patrimonial regimes branded by strong cliental syste
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The Relationship between Crime and Poverty

There are contradictions and self-imposed myths that continue to manifest in our society that begs for critical assessment, engagement and analysis. Relatively we have a serious misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the relationship between crime and poverty, because ignorantly we have no appreciation of the historical constructs of our country and the current socio-economic status quo that are contributing factors to crime. Fallacious arguments continue to manifest in our social circles that misunderstand reasons and sources of unfavorable violent social behavior. Strategies, policies, financial and human resources have been availed to “fight and combat crime”, yet these blanket interventions, including the community policing initiative, the ‘neighborhood watch’ that operates in affluent locations with very racist tendencies, have failed to prevent crime as evidence corroborates with news in our daily newspapers. What we have set forth is a counter-revolutionary anti-black pr
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I hope HH left us his autobiography

I have felt great sadness of losing my father – my best friend once – when I was about only 10 years of age, no need to imagine the depression, devastation and anguish that once consumed me. Subsequent to that, I learned how to deal with death, to make sense of it and welcome it, with an understanding that death is an integral part of life for it has meaning; with an understanding that death is inevitable, for it is something I am not really emotional about anymore, because death is a phenomenon that will always be part of our sophisticated life cycle, of our ups and downs, of our rights and wrongs. However, what’s more disheartening is when old people die, African history because most of it is oral suffers a great loss with the death of each elder, “When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground” ; they die with such depth of wisdom and wealth of knowledge, which is seldom transferred to the young, through relevant communication and information platforms. For it can’t be cor
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