A Tribalist Project
AS AN Oshindonga-speaking Namibian, I am saddened by a group of power-hungry Oshindonga-speaking youngsters who are moving around manipulating young and old Namibians to support their negative idea for the creation of an exclusive region for Oshindonga speakers (Ondonga region, or Peter Nanyemba or Oshitambi,or Martin Rautanen/Nakambale kaNene), within a peaceful, stable Namibia.
As an Omundonga who lives in Ondonga, I have been following this tribalistic project, which has the potency to stabilise the whole of Namibia, and I therefore wish to share with other Namibians the content of this project.
There is a group of young Oshindonga speakers who feel that they are from a supreme tribe, an Oshiwambo sub-tribe who were the first to mingle with whites/missionaries, and thus they have a strong feeling that they were the first to become ‘civilized’, that they were the first to wear trousers, while others were still wearing goat skins; and thus they believe that they have to be the ones who are ruling others.
Further, this group believes that it was the Ndongas who founded the Owambo Peoples Organisation (OPO) and Swapo and according to their belief, they are supposed to be the leaders of Namibia, because it is them who started the liberation struggle that led to independence.
The group also believes that the premature death of liberation the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) commander Peter Nanyemba had robbed them of the real first President of Namibia. They also believe that Nahas Angula has been too passive and soft in his campaign for State House and feel he was not supposed to step aside for Hage Geingob, and that Angula has thus failed to “restore the Peter Nanyemba legacy”, and he has failed to put the Ndongas back into supremacy.
This group of power-hungry “supreme” Oshindonga young elders, who hold night meetings in Ondangwa, and in Windhoek and Swakopmund, aim to control Namibia by replacing the Kwanyama and Omusati cliques. This group is trying to hide its negative deeds by making Oshana governor Clemens Kashuupulwa a scapegoat by tarnishing his good name.
We the progressive Aandonga want to continue working together with other Namibians irrespective of tribe, race or origin. I urge the Office of the President and and Office of the Founding Father to use all their resources to investigate, counsel and neutralise this terrible tribalism. I appeal to all Nambians to correct the Ondonga king and reject and rubbish this so-called Ondonga region as a tribalistic project.
Mpingana Shalongo
Ondangwa