Allow me space in your good newspaper. If someone is a hero of somebody, it does not mean he/she can also be everyone’s hero! That is your own choice and elaboration of your hero.
What he/she has done, whether in the past or at present, is up to you.
Mr Asser Ntinda, Editor of Namibia Today in his Zoom In of September 14-20 2007, alleged that: “Savimbi was declared a war criminal … Savimbi plunged Angola into vicious civil war that lasted for more than 25 years since independence from Portugal in 1975…”
Ntinda was referring to the interview of Mr Phil ya Nangoloh by New Era as said that his heroes are “Herman ya Toivo, Fidel Castro and Jonas Savimbi”.
If Ntinda is saying Dr Jonas Savimbi is not a hero because he brought civil war in Angola, then you are wrong. That is only how you know his past or present, but someone may have known him more than what you know.
Many people believe in the heroes and heroines of others and have failed to discover their own heroes. One good example is that Dr Savimbi had given some war material to SWAPO Party during the liberation struggle before SWAPO was well connected with the MPLA.
Will Mr Ntinda, deny that. On the other hand if Mr Ntinda wants Mr Nujoma to be a hero of everyone, that is morally wrong because if you say it to those who suffered in the Lumbago Dungeons, they may say, how can you make such person to be our hero, while he has made his followers suffer?
The survivors can tell this horror with their eyes full of tears and you cannot force them to recognize Namibian Former President and Father of the Nation Mr Nujoma as their hero.
Mr Ntinda, everyone has the right to choose his/her own hero, so do you!
Can Mr Ntinda elaborate more, why Dr Savimbi had not wanted to be ruled under Eduardo do Santos’ decree?
Do “Western powers”, only sound bad if the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) knows them, while they are not bad when they support the SWAPO-led Government?
Someone may view this attitude as that Mr Ntinda can go to beg for bread from his neighbour but if you tell him that you are going to do the same, he will tell you not to go there because you will be bewitched.
He has already fed himself with the bread from the same person whom he is accusing of being a witch.
Who is fooling who?
Who controls our economy and who gives them power to control it? Is it not the same SWAPO-led government that gives power to the West to control our economy?
You may be angry because the nation is vigilant of your political propaganda now and they may not accept any blue lie anymore like before.
Are you concerned that your party (SWAPO) might not get a two-thirds majority, because you thought SWAPO is Alpha and Omega?
Itaala Davids