All that glitters is not gold:
The RDP has been formed and was eventually launched on Saturday, 17 November 2007.
The interim president, as was anticipated, is Mr Hidipo Hamutenya. He was surrounded by what is expected to be the leadership of the new party, mostly former Swapo members who served in higher positions and most of whom were involved in various malpractices such as mismanagement of daily subsistence allowances, defalcation and misappropriation of Swapo party funds, mismanagement of Swapo Party and government projects, etc., etc.
The list is endless.
As a result of these anomalies committed by these individuals, the Swapo party lost trust in them and most of them could no longer be entrusted with such important national responsibilities, hence their removal from key positions in the party and in Government.
It is therefore out of the imagination to hear that people with such blotted credentials now have the vision and temperament to drive the economy of this country to greater heights and to maintain peace and stability that have been jealously upheld by the Swapo government during the past seventeen years.
The new party is promising the Namibian nation that manna will fall from heaven to enable them to provide many jobs which they were unable to create since independence when they were running the government under Swapo.
They could not create the said jobs when they ran the now defunct projects such as the NDC, AMCOM, DBC, etc, Where then, one wonders will they find the financial resources and administrative as well as economic acumen and wit to perform much better than the present government?
If what happened in Zambia when Mr Frederick Chiluba took over the government with a group of similarly disgruntled political paupers is anything to recall, then Namibia could be heading for economic failures if RDP were to come to power because the Chiluba regime plundered the economic resources of Zambia during the period 1991 to 2001 until Mr Mwanawasa came to power in 2001 to start reviving the economy and to restore it before it could completely collapse.
The formation of the RDP also brought along a very strange phenomenon whereby the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) is campaigning for RDP on NBC call-in programmes such as Open Line and the Chat Show.
It is puzzling to note that a body perceived to be there for the human rights of all people in the country is taking sides in politics and making efforts to ensure that the ruling party is removed from power.
These tactics are tantamount to destabilisation and stirring up political turmoil in a country that has been enjoying relative peace and harmony for so long.
My opinion is, taking the above into consideration, that the Namibian nation is better off under a government run by SWAPO than to be under that run by a group of political opportunists like Muyongo who would settle at nothing but power at all costs.
Testimony of Swapo Party’s good economic performance is the statement issued by the delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday, 16 November 2007 just about 24 hours before the launch of the RDP, that the economic performance of the country was on the right course.
I can therefore safely conclude that our country is currently in safe custody.
Worried Namibian