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Old 12th July 2008, 09:56 AM
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Question When is this favoritism ending in Namibia

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It stroke me again, yesterday: proudly congratulating youths for academic excellence, was another private sector, nothing wrong with this, only to realize, 2 of the youths where of white descent, and the rest, which were about ten wambos. Don't get me wrong, not being unhappy that the country does something good for the formerly disadvantage, but the problem is, it is a selct group of the formerly disadvantage that keep get promoted. Is this a strategy that all of private sector and gorvernment and anyone with economic means is carefully devising? we used to cry foul when this happened and only boere children were educated on tertiary level, now we are all silent when the owambo regime commits the same crime? Namibia, when will you end disadvantaging the khoi of this country? the diamond mine is for instance in the south, but does Namdeb give substantial bursaries to the original inhibitors of the south? Really Namibia, this need to end.

The funny thing is that when I pointed out all the surnames of the said students hail from the same group of our society, I was nonchalantly informed that people cant help if the wambo kids work hard. really absurd, but if we give opportunities for a select few only, of course the picture that is ideally preferred in Namibia will form, wambos will seem more progressively thinking, thanks to the conscious engineering of such...wambos will seem more intellectually abreast, thanks to the not so secret but not verbalised strategy of creating an upper class deliberately , carefully picking from a favoured segment of our society
I really wonder when it will be the turn for the khoi of Namibia, and I do not mean only secondary school opportunities for just San, I mean the same opportunities that are made accessible for the bantu kid for all khoi youth too, including the San, Nama and the Damara of Namibia, afterall they gave up their land, and resources to bantus and whites.

I also want to add the the government currently makes it impossible for children to be taken up in primary school before they practically turned 8, but I constantly hear how a young professional from the north was allowed to start schooling at the age of 5 thus complete tertiary studies before they turn 21, and mind you braggin about it, whereas the rest of namibia is stuck with this so called rule from governmnent. The whites would send their offspring to private schools and thus are not affected by this adverse regulation. This is deliberately keeping certain groups aback. there are many more issues that point to a deliberately creation of a better off and favored select segment of our society. How do things like these happen in a so called free and fair Namibia?

ps. caution, this is not advocating of tribalism, but only a call to also recognise khoi rights to the economy and education.
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Old 12th July 2008, 01:30 PM
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Post Favouritism, hypocrisy and nepotism is indeed Namibian style politics.

Favouritism and hypocrisy and nepotism is nothing new in Namibian politics. Indeed, this is the way forward in Namibian politics.

These are the axes of evil in Namibian politics. This should and must be rooted out.

If not, this will lead to anger, frustration, resentment and animosity. This together creates a way forward to violence. Violence creates way for instability. Instability threathens peace.

This is how I see it.

I personally do not care really if another war breaks out in Namibia, because I do not live in Namibia, and will not suffer the consequences in person.

Namibians should learn to deal in another way with issues of such nature (nepotism and favouritism in Namibian politics), while they still have the time.

Time runs out for every one.
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Default Re: Favouritism, hypocrisy and nepotism is indeed Namibian style politics.

Mindfactory yes these seem to be the cornerstones or building blocks for our future indeed, not to exclude tribalism as well...
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Default Re: When is this favoritism ending in Namibia

Hi There

I completely agree with this article. Just watch the newspapers, news etc., and nobody can disagree with you.
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Default Re: When is this favoritism ending in Namibia

Favouritism is the normal human inclination to prefer acquaintances, friends and family over strangers. But it is also the favouring of one person or group at the expense of another. It is a form of discrmination and unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.

There remains a huge amount of prejudice in our nation, of discrimination and unfair treatment, and I don't think it will ever end as such.

But what we can, and what we have to do, is ensure that - where possible - blatant favouritism is seen for what it is and addressed. The fact is that we all will ultimately pay the price if the scales are unbalanced and one group in society is favoured over others. A society cannot work on this basis.
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