Author: Prof Makala Lilemba (Prof Makala Lilemba )

It is usually said that ‘what goes around comes around’, but perhaps in the current Namibian situation should be the other way round – that ‘what comes around goes around’. 

This article responds to the rebuttal of Mr David Mabuta Kapule on my discourse ‘The Quest for a Paramount Chief in the Zambezi’, in the New Era of 2 September 2022. The half-Namibia-Botswana citizen, currently studying in the United States of America, tries to silence my academic freedom. 

It seems the quest for a paramount chief in the Zambezi region is still on the cards, and it is only that this time around it is being aired on social media through video clips by a secret cult organisation whose members are operating from Botswana, Namibia and Zambia. The members of this secret cult happen to belong to the Masubiya ethnic group. 

It seems the strike in which teachers were threatening “to lay down the pieces of chalk” has been thwarted by the 3% increment. This means the anger and frustration of the majority of teachers has been appeased and numbed by the increment, which others see as a drop in the ocean. 

The state of phobia between lawmakers and academicians has been simmering for many centuries, and yet no solution is in sight. In ancient Greece, Socrates was condemned to death by drinking hemlock because of his questions about life and knowledge and other issues, which affected humankind. 

Zambezi region is of strategic importance to the country and SADC in terms of economic development and trade.

Like in many African countries, education in Namibia was brought by different missionary societies.

The border post between Namibia and Zambia at Wenela in Katima Mulilo was closed during the occupation of the racist South African Government. 

One of the reasons for taking up arms and sacrifice the lives of many Namibians was to change and improve the inferior education system offered by the colonialists to the indigenous peoples of Namibia.