I FEEL indebted to my fellow mamacitas if I don’t comment on some of the mind-boggling things that some of our fellow papacitos said about us during the public lecture on 50/50 gender balance this week. First, let me thank our most decorated Professor Joseph Diescho and our very able and brave Nangula Shejavali for an excellent debate.
We also commend the Konrad Adenauer Foundation that made this evening possible.
All protocol observed.
Now that I have that out of the way, let me tell you what they were saying about us the fairer sex that evening. I am calling us the fairer sex because several studies done have found women to be trustworthy, honest and less corrupt.
Wipe that grin off your face; you had your chance to talk, nxo! You know me; I like to break down things to the T so that even Tant Mina there in the kasie who is busy roasting lekke chicken boude on Rand Street this Friday payday, can understand what I am talking about.
The outjies are saying they fought for this country and there is no way that we can imagine sharing leadership equally with them. Haibo … many of us who were born yesteryear can trace our footsteps in the dusty streets of Katutura as we ran from Casspirs in defiance of Bantu education.
There was “no, you are a girl, you can’t toyi-toyi in the scorching sun and walk home with blisters in your feet.” It’s just unfortunate there were no selfies, groundies or climbies that time otherwise we would have borne evidence that “We were there!”
Yes, we might not warra-warra like you and could even be shy to speak in front of the masses of people due to our past repressive upbringing, but that doesn’t mean that we have not upgraded ourselves. Thanks to our pro gender balance government. Anywho…some of you don’t even make sense when you talk, but out of humility we let you be. Skills in public speaking cannot necessarily be equated to social intelligence.
The best initiators have confined themselves to little cubicles to find workable formulas that have amazed human kind.
They also said that there is kama no evidence to prove women were oppressed in the past.
Eto, are you for real? What proof do you really need if for generations a married woman with her children were told to voetsek out of her common law home after her husband died?
Nee man, what is there to prove when tons of women have died at the hands of their male partners?
This is not a war of the sexes, mind you.
We are all born with our unique traits irrespective of gender. Making reference to physical attributes or the Bible as a justification for dominion of one sex over the other is so archaic.
It’s almost like the white supremacist claiming that his race is superior to other races.
Let’s learn from history to redress injustices of the past and not use that as a yardstick to define and justify the status quo.
Yes, let’s go 50/50 – we are all capable of guiding our beloved Namibia into a new dispensation.
Sorry Ngo!
mnunuhe@newera.com.na
By Magreth Nunuhe