Stop The Killing

I AM a woman who is afraid of the senseless killings of women in Namibia. To men out there who kill the mother of your child, what comes into your head before doing it? Doesn’t your child come to mind knowing that you wouldn’t be able to answer your child’s questions one day why you took away the mother’s life?

You say that you had invested a lot of money in them. If you know that you paid for that woman’s university/school, you bought her everything in the flat she stays in, you bought her that expensive phone, you bought her clothes, you paid all her accounts, you paid the flat she lives in… If you have done so much for her I believe you know all her friends and some of her family members. Why don’t you ask the family members and her elders so that they will make plans to repay you all of that if that woman doesn’t want to continue having a relationship with you?To men above 40 who ask out women between 16-21, these are small girls. They are supposed to be your daughters! Imagine your friend approaching your 17-year-old. If you have a lot of money why don’t you give it to charity, especially orphanages where it will help the little girls you like?My fellow Namibian women what is happening to you? Why are you seducing men? Why are you tricking men? Why are you being unfaithful with those unfaithful men? Young women, I don’t understand you when you seduce men who are as old as your own fathers. This is worse than prostitution. A lot of women who do this are from wealthy families going the wrong direction not getting what they want at home or the ones from poor families, and who didn’t have the chance to swim in luxury so they look for it the easy way. Yet, men you are totally wrong by killing another person’s daughter. You don’t have any right to kill someone. This is just to advice my fellow Namibians to do the right thing.Frieda Ndeshipanda NambwadjaWindhoek

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