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Froese On Personal Attacks

Froese On Personal Attacks

YOUR abuse of the democratic values of ‘freedom of the media’ and ‘freedom of speech’ in your Political Perspective of your newspaper published on 30 July 2004 are self-evident.

With respect, however, I would not like to dignify your vitriolic personal attacks on my person. In fact, if I removed the number of insults on my person, there would hardly be any content left.I therefore invite you to start gathering and writing on facts and let us see then, what contents you can actually come up with to lend credence to your claimed ‘journalistic background’.Your slanderous tirade against my person merely adds to the lack of substance in your continued attacks on certain Swapo leadership figures, which are on record and reflect the same standard, actually saying nothing at all.Please practice what you preach and let the people write, or else be open to justified criticism of practising double standards and slander, therefore, clearly behaving unethically.In my previous memorandum to you I have stated clearly and for the record that I not know, nor have anything at all to do with a certain Mr Ananias Nghifitikeko, nor do I hide behind that person, nor am I in any way part of Swapo leadership.Therefore, I cannot possibly have such insight into the political manoeuvres on those levels, as the mentioned gentleman seems to have.In my published articles, I reflect the situation truthfully and I do not have to be ashamed of the truth.For that reason, I never hide my name.I thus dismiss the meagre and factually incorrect contents of said ‘political perspective’ with the contempt they deserve.In your attempts you write “…who else would want to plagiarise his alleged journalistic writings, which he maintains were ‘published in the media in Africa’”.This is conjecture, if ever I saw any.May I point out the factual errors that emanate from your own writing in the same ‘political perspective’ that my previous memorandum to you was ‘probably faxed from SYL headquarters’.This is blunt guesswork as it was indeed faxed from Johannesburg, South Africa.Please check your facts and end attempts of misleading a paying readership.One wonders whose agenda that ‘editor’ of The Namibian is fighting.Is she fighting her dirty war for and on behalf of Swapo? Which and who’s Swapo?Let me record my observation, and by using your logic, you could be the lackey of Mr Ben Ulenga and his Congress of Democrats (CoD) in whose company you have often been seen, not to mention those who you so zealously and self-righteously want to protect.The absence of depth in your ‘political perspective’ makes it evident that those are the last and desperate attempts of an agent provocateur cast into the wilderness and not being able to come to terms with it.I sign this letter, as you will see, under my own name.Udo W Froese JohannesburgNote:Well. Let it not be said that progress is not being made.This time you signed your memo (the last one was unsigned), and you didn’t withhold caller ID on your fax, which hails from ‘Magma’ in Johannesburg, as you did the last time, and which is why we had to guess the origin.Your letter is placed unedited.And lastly, please double-check your ‘intelligence’ sources on my contacts with Ben Ulenga, a person I rarely see.And the old attempt to try to ‘discredit’ the newspaper with alleged CoD links is very tired by now.Remember, the latest on the disinformation front is that we’re supposed to be funding the Hamutenya campaign, but you can’t be expected to know all the gossip when you’re based in Johannesburg! When Sakkie Nujoma picks you up from the airport next time, make sure of a more thorough and accurate briefing.- Gwen ListerIn fact, if I removed the number of insults on my person, there would hardly be any content left.I therefore invite you to start gathering and writing on facts and let us see then, what contents you can actually come up with to lend credence to your claimed ‘journalistic background’.Your slanderous tirade against my person merely adds to the lack of substance in your continued attacks on certain Swapo leadership figures, which are on record and reflect the same standard, actually saying nothing at all.Please practice what you preach and let the people write, or else be open to justified criticism of practising double standards and slander, therefore, clearly behaving unethically.In my previous memorandum to you I have stated clearly and for the record that I not know, nor have anything at all to do with a certain Mr Ananias Nghifitikeko, nor do I hide behind that person, nor am I in any way part of Swapo leadership.Therefore, I cannot possibly have such insight into the political manoeuvres on those levels, as the mentioned gentleman seems to have.In my published articles, I reflect the situation truthfully and I do not have to be ashamed of the truth.For that reason, I never hide my name.I thus dismiss the meagre and factually incorrect contents of said ‘political perspective’ with the contempt they deserve.In your attempts you write “…who else would want to plagiarise his alleged journalistic writings, which he maintains were ‘published in the media in Africa’”.This is conjecture, if ever I saw any.May I point out the factual errors that emanate from your own writing in the same ‘political perspective’ that my previous memorandum to you was ‘probably faxed from SYL headquarters’.This is blunt guesswork as it was indeed faxed from Johannesburg, South Africa.Please check your facts and end attempts of misleading a paying readership.One wonders whose agenda that ‘editor’ of The Namibian is fighting.Is she fighting her dirty war for and on behalf of Swapo? Which and who’s Swapo?Let me record my observation, and by using your logic, you could be the lackey of Mr Ben Ulenga and his Congress of Democrats (CoD) in whose company you have often been seen, not to mention those who you so zealously and self-righteously want to protect.The absence of depth in your ‘political perspective’ makes it evident that those are the last and desperate attempts of an agent provocateur cast into the wilderness and not being able to come to terms with it.I sign this letter, as you will see, under my own name.Udo W Froese JohannesburgNote:Well. Let it not be said that progress is not being made.This time you signed your memo (the last one was unsigned), and you didn’t withhold caller ID on your fax, which hails from ‘Magma’ in Johannesburg, as you did the last time, and which is why we had to guess the origin.Your letter is placed unedited.And lastly, please double-check your ‘intelligence’ sources on my contacts with Ben Ulenga, a person I rarely see.And the old attempt to try to ‘discredit’ the newspaper with alleged CoD links is very tired by now.Remember, the latest on the disinformation front is that we’re supposed to be funding the Hamutenya campaign, but you can’t be expected to know all the gossip when you’re based in Johannesburg! When Sakkie Nujoma picks you up from the airport next time, make sure of a more thorough and accurate briefing.- Gwen Lister

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