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The Namibian
Mon 12 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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| 2013-08-09
No Time And Energy?
IN YOUR ‘Letter of the week’ of Friday 2 August 2013, the writer wrote about the investment of time and effort to lay the foundation of a new movement in the form of a political party for the poor in our country. You, dear editor, reacted very sceptically. You reminded us that the poor amongst us do not have the time and energy to organise themselves because of their daily fight to simply stay alive.
Well, let me ask, where did the oppressed, the poor and hopeless people of this planet ever find the time and energy to rise for freedom if not within themselves? No one presented them the wished-for better life on a silver platter. If there was not a strong desire within and among them to get out of the quagmire of their misery, nothing would change.
No well-off person will ever change anything voluntarily, as for him everything is ‘fine’. Should we not find today the strength to work for a change to equality in the same nation that freed itself from apartheid? Or did this nation’s character deteriorate so fast that it will tolerate to stay bonded in poverty forever? I do not believe that, sir! I think our people are strong!
Namibia’s independence came with bags full of promises for all of us and, let us not forget this fact, with lorries loaded full of benefits and privileges for a small part of this nation.
If we move away from the centres of the Namibian communities to their vast outskirts, poverty is the only impression that comes to mind immediately. Nobody can overlook the plight of these people. Even a greed-dulled imagination can see how sorry the life of the people living there must be.
Here we have indeed a motivation to put in time, energy and talent to change the abysmal misery of the daily life of our neighbours. Here live those some call the dregs or sediment of society; here life is fomenting – as it was in so many other societies of this world that found the strength for change by acting together.
What might not yet be right, is the time-factor; maybe the pressure of poverty is not heavy enough yet. But in our modern times, it takes not hundreds of years to start an effective re-engineering of a society as it was in Europe.
To start organising the poor in our society makes, in my eyes, perfect sense. It really is the only democratic way to take away the political power from those who abuse it; it is the only way to avoid blood shedding. And the time to begin with the work should now probably be right, too. If the poor people can manage to get together for furthering their own interests, they should now really have a good chance to win the next elections at the end of 2014. Give it a try, I say!
Renatha Senath
By E-mail
Well, let me ask, where did the oppressed, the poor and hopeless people of this planet ever find the time and energy to rise for freedom if not within themselves? No one presented them the wished-for better life on a silver platter. If there was not a strong desire within and among them to get out of the quagmire of their misery, nothing would change.
No well-off person will ever change anything voluntarily, as for him everything is ‘fine’. Should we not find today the strength to work for a change to equality in the same nation that freed itself from apartheid? Or did this nation’s character deteriorate so fast that it will tolerate to stay bonded in poverty forever? I do not believe that, sir! I think our people are strong!
Namibia’s independence came with bags full of promises for all of us and, let us not forget this fact, with lorries loaded full of benefits and privileges for a small part of this nation.
If we move away from the centres of the Namibian communities to their vast outskirts, poverty is the only impression that comes to mind immediately. Nobody can overlook the plight of these people. Even a greed-dulled imagination can see how sorry the life of the people living there must be.
Here we have indeed a motivation to put in time, energy and talent to change the abysmal misery of the daily life of our neighbours. Here live those some call the dregs or sediment of society; here life is fomenting – as it was in so many other societies of this world that found the strength for change by acting together.
What might not yet be right, is the time-factor; maybe the pressure of poverty is not heavy enough yet. But in our modern times, it takes not hundreds of years to start an effective re-engineering of a society as it was in Europe.
To start organising the poor in our society makes, in my eyes, perfect sense. It really is the only democratic way to take away the political power from those who abuse it; it is the only way to avoid blood shedding. And the time to begin with the work should now probably be right, too. If the poor people can manage to get together for furthering their own interests, they should now really have a good chance to win the next elections at the end of 2014. Give it a try, I say!
Renatha Senath
By E-mail
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