I DON’T know about you guys, but I am one proud Namibian who wouldn’t exchange my nationality or citizenship for anything else, even if I were offered a palace in Takarania (wherever that is). But some of you are the weirdest people, sowaar.
Mind you, I don’t count myself out and it’s really not a laughing matter, but the other day a beggar was arrested after she gwazza-ed an innocent woman over her moola.
I was shocked to learn the suspect was female. This woman who shockingly stabbed a stranger over nyuku that was not hers in the first place shouldn’t even be considered a beggar; she is just plain botsotso.
Heela, when did we women become this aggressive, vakuetu? Not in my wildest dreams would I expect another woman to ncina me. I mean, we are supposed to be the nurturing and soft type – the ones who would call our brothers to order and kak them out for all the horrible things we hear and see about them.
I am not implying the fairer sex is completely innocent and flawless when it comes to committing crimes, because I clearly remember the female Tara Nawa’s in the 90s, who once swindled me out of my expensive Stern watch that I was still paying off.
I dared to dobbol with the Devil in a White Floppie Hat in the middle of Independence Avenue that day mos. Look and you shall find.
I remember some notorious female gangs who were feisty shoplifters as well.
I have also seen women fight over their lovie-dovies, which would be grabbing each other by the hair, scratching each other in the neck, but none of this ever included wielding a knife at another.
To imagine that as from now on, a sister has to watch out for another sister is unheard of. Imagine passing a dark street at night and the relief you get when you see it’s a female approaching from the other end, only for her to start chasing you with stones, okapis and pangas. Ta!
The cliché that ‘beggars are not choosers’cannot be over-emphasised, because if you are the needy, but you don’t have manners and can’t accept when someone declines to give you money or food, then something is wrong with you.
After all, it’s their prerogative to decide whether they want to give their hard-earned moola to you or not. They owe you nothing and if they decide to be generous, it’s out of their own free will.
If we are not careful, we might come to a point where a beggar might throw back bread in your face if he or she asked for money to buy bread and you bought them the bread instead.
I know times are hard, but some of you also make it hard for others to spot the real needy people when you stand at city corners pretending to be blind or crippled, only to be spotted in Tura behaving like you are Mr CMB (Cash Money Brother).
Some people take the Bible verse that says ‘Give, and it shall be given unto you’ at face value and think it’s their right to demand from others.
Even when you loan something to them, they feel you are out of line to ask for your things back, with comments like, “You are going on about a N$500? What is a N$500?” Eto, did you forget that you didn’t have it in the first place?
And yes, whether it was 50 cents, 50 dollars or five thousand dollars, that kalittle money was mine in the first place.
mnunuhe@newera.com.na
Magreth Nunuhe