Humour - A Natural Resource

IN Namibia we are blessed with so many natural resources, but there is another one which is not often appreciated - a rich vein of (usually unintended) humour.

Scan the pages of any newspaper and you will see.

For instance, the news that a team of six Zimbabwean government

officials seconded to Namibia, presumably at our expense, is to

advise on land redistribution.

 

Right - employing Zimbabwean official consultants for land

redistribution is a bit like taking lessons in navigation from the

captain of the Titanic.

 

What a pity there are no satirists and cartoonists in Namibia to

take advantage of this resource! Satirists in South Africa, for

instance, where our father of the nation has regularly cornered the

title of Mampoer of the Week, are not so reticent.

 

And the best sit-com scriptwriters in the world, if they knew,

would fight tooth and nail for the rights to the Board meeting

minutes of the Roads Authority.

 

On a much darker note, there is the news that cancer patients

will go untreated (no funds to fix the machine) while another 70

million is allocated (just for this year of course) to the new

State House - this not to include the gold taps and the cost of

evicting the middle-class 'peasants' of the surrounding area.

 

Namibia's own financial Iraq?

 

Humorous

Windhoek

 

Note: Name and address supplied - Ed.

 

For instance, the news that a team of six Zimbabwean government

officials seconded to Namibia, presumably at our expense, is to

advise on land redistribution.Right - employing Zimbabwean official

consultants for land redistribution is a bit like taking lessons in

navigation from the captain of the Titanic.What a pity there are no

satirists and cartoonists in Namibia to take advantage of this

resource! Satirists in South Africa, for instance, where our father

of the nation has regularly cornered the title of Mampoer of the

Week, are not so reticent.And the best sit-com scriptwriters in the

world, if they knew, would fight tooth and nail for the rights to

the Board meeting minutes of the Roads Authority.On a much darker

note, there is the news that cancer patients will go untreated (no

funds to fix the machine) while another 70 million is allocated

(just for this year of course) to the new State House - this not to

include the gold taps and the cost of evicting the middle-class

'peasants' of the surrounding area.Namibia's own financial

Iraq?Humorous

WindhoekNote: Name and address supplied - Ed.

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