Otjiwarongo Council accused of racial discrimination

I want to register my shocking experience and [the report of] racial discrimination in your newspaper.

It is with shock and dismay that I came to learn that the

Otjiwarongo Constituency Development Committee members are

Otjiherero-speaking only while representing the multi-racial town

of Otjiwarongo.

They do not represent the Ministries of Trade and Industry,

Women Affairs, Basic Education or the teachers resource centre and

the communities of the formerly disadvantaged.

 

On the basis of these considerations, the question remains of

who these members are representing? Themselves or the community,

and if the community, which community? Why is there one tribe that

is dominant on this committee? There are active community church

leaders who can represent the community regardless of their racial

backgrounds.

 

Yet we are talking of empowering a community while the community

is not informed about the funds that are being allocated for the

year or the projects being funded or any such other things.

 

Currently these funds - which should be going to the community

and projects - are being wasted and squandered and a lot of people

and projects could benefit from this money.

 

This is a form of corruption and it has to be curbed.

 

[We need] transparency and responsibility and a neutral

committee should be formed.

 

Concerned Resident.

 

Otjiwarongo Via e-mail

 

They do not represent the Ministries of Trade and Industry, Women

Affairs, Basic Education or the teachers resource centre and the

communities of the formerly disadvantaged. On the basis of these

considerations, the question remains of who these members are

representing? Themselves or the community, and if the community,

which community? Why is there one tribe that is dominant on this

committee? There are active community church leaders who can

represent the community regardless of their racial backgrounds. Yet

we are talking of empowering a community while the community is not

informed about the funds that are being allocated for the year or

the projects being funded or any such other things. Currently these

funds - which should be going to the community and projects - are

being wasted and squandered and a lot of people and projects could

benefit from this money. This is a form of corruption and it has to

be curbed. [We need] transparency and responsibility and a neutral

committee should be formed. Concerned Resident. Otjiwarongo Via

e-mail

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