Letters

I hereby on my own behalf submit the objection as per abovementioned subject.  As a neighbour to the aforesaid land applied for by the office of the Vice President, I am submitting this objection as descendant of landless, land dispossessed people and a generational farm worker child of Namibia. 

A certain Vilho Mbangu has written, in a Namibian context, an insightful and informative article on the subject matter back in May 2019.

Namibia, where the Sahel meets the desert, a rarely heard of African country, is located on the southwest coast of Africa on the Atlantic Ocean between Angola, South Africa, Botswana and Zambia, on an area of 826 thousand square kilometers, inhabited by as low as 2.6 million people.

We recently celebrated World Children’s Day on Monday 20th November, which is supposed to help promote the rights of children and improve the lives of disadvantaged children across the world. I am deeply dismayed as to why no one has spoken out for all the little boys and girls of Zimbabwe who are currently living way below poverty, with some going a whole day without eating.

 “Men who are much more religious than their partners are especially likely to perpetrate domestic violence (Simister & Kowalewska)”

Earlier this week I visited relatives in Ohangwena region, and the following demise was narrated to me. An elderly past her 70s, and his 50-something son live a pauper life, close to nothing at all, just because they do not hold any Namibian national documents.

On Monday 11th November 2019, The Namibian newspaper carried a news article under the heading “GIPF to pay out N$5.2 billion in benefit”. 

Few citizens disagree that the ‘new’ pre-vocational integrated curriculum is the panacea to the skill shortages in Namibia.

If a pastor from a charismatic church had committed the crime of rape as we have seen circulating in news outlets these past few days, there would have been an endless outcry for their termination.

As the country tries to find ways to address the alarming rate of gender-based violence (GBV) one needs to ask certain questions, as to what really triggers one to act so barbaric towards another human beings.