In a speech peppered with the sort of socialist terminology and oratory many might have thought had faded into history with memories of the Berlin Wall, Kaiyamo used his contribution to the Assembly's discussion of the Competition Bill to enlighten his colleagues on the nature of capitalism and the class struggle in Namibia.

"Commercial bourgeoisie and its comprador (an agent for foreign businesses) have been supporting the so-called free market, to sell commodities at higher prices and make it not reachable for the Dameses,
Haihambo, Rooinasie (...). If this bill is well implemented it should ensure stability and overall progress in our market."

The Competition Bill, if passed into law, will outlaw anti-competitive business practices such as price fixing and market monopolisation.

"This Bill provides popular participation of the working people in the new economic order," Kaiyamo said. "It applies some brakes on the rule of capital, as well as total exploitation of our masses on the market of which the mode of production is very much capitalist in nature. Shoprite, Elago, Meroro, Mandume stores will be controlled to serve fairly all the classes."

"All class conscious, honest peasants and working people" should take part, on the side of the masses, to fight resistance against the Bill, Kaiyamo said.

"No mercy to the enemy of the people," he warned. "Everybody who wants to sell above the recommended price is the enemy of this process and should receive no mercy at all. (...) These enemies must be placed under the special surveillance of the entire people."

The Bill needed to be approached from a class point of view, he said. He reminded the Assembly: "Our struggle has not been against colour but against a system of exploitation of man by man."

The working class will be the winners with the Bill; they must be the vanguard of the process, he added.

"Long live Lenin," muttered DTA President Katuutire Kaura after Kaiyamo had wrapped up his speech.

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