Happiness And Naivete

“I AM happy now!” These were words of Hage Geingob after the congress elected him as vice president of Swapo. By the way, we are happy too. We wish him the best for his own sake and our Namibian future.

But politics are what politics always were: politics is not for the naive. And therefore, we have to ask him why he is happy. Is he happy because he made it again to the springboard to state presidency in 2014 for personal gain or is he happy because he knows that he can do better for Namibia than the other candidates he defeated would be able to?
Does he know that being happy for his own, private well-being would be very ‘cheap’? However, being happy because he gets the chance to repair the mistakes of our government and his party would be a noble happiness, because such would constitute a huge challenge for any man of even very special calibre, of superior intellect and will power. Lesser men we have in abundance; what this country and nation needs is the New Great Man, the leader able to lead us all into the new millennium, into a better future for all Namibia!
Many have put their faith in this man shortly before and than after independence. Many despaired because they soon saw that he was chained by the party’s system and by others in powerful positions who were and still are unable to see the whole Namibia behind their party – and so he could not convincingly prove that he could be, and in fact will be, the one the nation waited for, the Namibian political messiah.
If he was happy because he will be able to prove it at last, fine. Then he will get all the support this nation can gather, especially from those still waiting. He will need that support, every little bit of it. We hope for the best for him. Honestly!

Lena I Asbos
Karas Region

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