Cracks In The Monolith

MANY readers have queried why the highest authorities have not acted decisively on the current financial scandal and all the previous ones.

Why is the incumbent President (one even has to qualify which one!) acting like a cardboard cut-out in this matter? Why have those involved not been suspended without pay, fired, prosecuted, and if found guilty, punished, in the public eye? Why have the results of the innumerable commissions of inquiry never been made public? I am afraid the answer lies in the liberation culture – the idea that, despite some little local difficulties, the comrades of the struggle should stick together. Dropping high names, and displaying your cadre credentials, offers good prospects for immunity from prosecution.That is why the Minister, declining to release the results of yet another commission of inquiry, says that it “involves people”.Quite so: the comrades.Perhaps another political generation has to grow up before this problem can be addressed.The latest Avid scandal, though, judging from the reaction, may be the last straw.It may in fact mark the first cracks in the Swapo monolith.Ordinary people, who have placed their trust in the leaders of their liberation, are now growing weary of the leaders and their friends abusing their trust to steal their money.Hopefully some changes are on the way.It might even be worth the N$30 million.Thoughts Via e-mailDropping high names, and displaying your cadre credentials, offers good prospects for immunity from prosecution.That is why the Minister, declining to release the results of yet another commission of inquiry, says that it “involves people”.Quite so: the comrades.Perhaps another political generation has to grow up before this problem can be addressed.The latest Avid scandal, though, judging from the reaction, may be the last straw.It may in fact mark the first cracks in the Swapo monolith.Ordinary people, who have placed their trust in the leaders of their liberation, are now growing weary of the leaders and their friends abusing their trust to steal their money.Hopefully some changes are on the way.It might even be worth the N$30 million. Thoughts Via e-mail