By Andreas Hainghumbi
THIS article is not for personal interest or a personal attack but a presentation of the fact and matter of truth. I am not a political comrade but a companion to the voiceless, the poor and those regarded not special before the elites.
I have no idea who set up the criteria on who qualifies to be special or be called a golden child and what achievements one must possess in order to be favoured above others. If such criteria do exist then they must be made public so that each and every person in need of land can ascertain their own qualifications for themselves.
This message goes to all municipalities and town councils in this country. You don’t own this country but you are assigned in such positions to manage resources and serve people that put you in such positions. So do not forget that you are public servants.
Make no mistake, before God we are all special and golden children.
God favours all. He is not corrupt and the highest court of all approves His dealings. God is just. God gave us this land and it is huge enough to accommodate every person and with all natural resources at our disposal. Humans have lost their true nature; we have lost the Godly compassionate heart for our fellow beings. Greediness, jealousy and selfishness have overpowered men and we are chasing the world for material self-enrichment instead of restoring our spiritual relationship with our creator, Allah, God. Betrayal and moral decay have become the order of the day. You can’t sleep with eyes closed; you got to keep one eye awake otherwise the enemy will terminate you before you know it. This is the world we are living in; it’s a corrupt world. We have fallen and failed.
Job Amupanda, Dimbulukeni Nauyoma and George Kambala are not crying fools and I do understand their sentiment regarding the Kleine Kuppe issue. When executed properly action does speak louder than words. Sometimes when you just keep talking nobody seems to hear you because your words are falling on deaf ears but the moment you walk the talk or put your complaint into action, I guarantee you they will come for you. Yes, they will hunt you down; just ask Amupanda and his mates.
Job and SPYL comrades have become Tom and Jerry and the Top Cats became impatient and decided to take law into their hands by suspending him and his associates from mother body activities. These young men have now been boosted by the support of fellow youth that want access and benefit from the country abundant natural resources. I understand that now they target fishing quotas even though the initial idea of Affirmative Repositioning was land. I wonder what’s the next move for this youth-led movement. The struggle for resources repositioning continues.
Fellow citizens stop complaining while hiding and become actors not audiences, spectators or free ride passengers who just want to benefit from others’ sacrifices. You don’t want to suffer but you want to gain. Be the agent of change and be the change that you want to see.
Nobody can claim to have created this earth or invented a diamond or fish; therefore we can’t selfishly sell the natural resources with a greedy price tag on. God gave us all resources freely and bestowed upon us pure and Godly wisdom to manage, care and share all that He has provided.
Land reform has been talked about for so long, more than I can remember and I have lost interest because it is all cheap talk nothing more, no action but empty and hopeless words of men without vision. It is all chaos, corruption is rife and out of control.
The Head of State at the very beginning of his term as the elected president, he was prophesying the end of corruption but the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) was and still is toothless and ineffective. ACC has no fear factor at all, corruption is even worse now. You can wear a fancy dress but if you got no brain then it is like putting a gold ring on the pig’s nose. Guess what the pig will do?
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he land issue is a global phenomenon but for a country like Namibia with such massive unoccupied land with a small population, it’s beyond me that the civilians have no place to call home and they are paying high rents for accommodation but yet they are in their own country. The unemployment is sky high. How can you be a refugee and slave in your own land? Somebody please help me understand why one has to be psychologically and physically killed for demanding something, which is rightfully his/hers? Why does “less privilege or not so special one” have to be forced to leave their lands or evicted from their homes for so called development which is “master plan” by few greedy individuals who are motivated to enrich themselves? Keep in mind that regardless of our differences in terms of politics, religious belief or spirituality, colour, race, tribe, languages, economic class or nationality, we are all one before God.
Please, stop selling the land to the foreigners, most of them are not even living in this country, these people they come here talking about investment but nothing much is happening. They are just having the land for leisure and inviting their friends to come and hunt in their game farms. If you not careful, this country will soon be owned by foreigners, just wait.
Let’s handle the issue of land in a friendly manner, we must avoid violent confrontation. We must share the land equally without hidden costs or discrimination.
Corruption shows us that we are spiritually dead, spiritually disconnected from God even though physically we seem to be alive. We have lost touch with our inner truth, the Holy Spirit, and the divine self. Unless we turn to God for divine intervention then we will drown in the sea of corruption and materialism (greediness).
Allah have mercy, the Land of the Brave is turning into the Land of Corruption.
*Andreas Hainghumbi is a writer and motivational speaker based in Swakopmund