If the Oshiwambo are the majority, then the Oshiwambo language should be in one way or the other one of the official languages or not?

Viva Oshakati ...

Certainly, now that can be accomplished with much ease. You don't have to bother with the majority question. Everyone knows who rules, has ruled and will for the longest time rule. It is the right time now to introduce anything. The language is one of the mildest of offenses. People already are speaking Kwanyama. People are moving up North following development, power and opportunities. They are learning the culture of the people in the northern regions. Thus Kwanyama or Donga could pass easily for an official language. If not de jure, then de facto.

There we go again, factions that will not rest if they don't rape the diverse Namibia into accepting all their whimbs and demands. Truly speaking, it still remains to be proven if the census is not merely a political tool to advance a specific group. Let's see development up North? Is it with the proceeds from the other really more meaningful regions? Yes so we are busy creating an illusion that the North holds any real income for the country(with mahangu neh), why, I can only wonder.

In the meantime, regions such as the South, with minerals galore, do not get developed so it may seem that the so-called majority faction really 'works hard, brings more value, etc, etc' - how cute really. So the majority issue to me is dirty politics, trying to justify why the politicians are strategically and greedily spending most of the country's earnings on their chosen people.

I challenge the census, really how transparent is it indeed conducted, and the other important question is, who conducts it? Of course things are easier to sway to ones favor when one is in power. So seeing that we do not have Nama speaking Mayors, regional wadda wadda's, etc, in the north, but have oshiwambo speaking honoroubles down south, I'd say, it is time that the Wambos please put an halt on this cancer they be carrying around, it causes divides much faster than you can say Verwoerd.

We, the rest of Namibia's diverse people are not stupid, we are peace-loving, so please do not overdo it now. 18 years of self enrichment and self importance and consequently lack of respect for other groups is long enough, it is time to bring back some balance in our society...peace brother, Let's keep the national language impartial, everything else (politics, entertainment, business, education, u name it) has already been oshiwambolized, it is too much, lets practice a bit of modesty and save this country from the all too popular African historical little path and a people denied, are people left with no other resort but to start taking action....usually with devastating results.

Caution, do not always see common sense as instigation, so reply to this vital piece of information cautiously , sort of like just how power should be used with caution

juikk,

To twist an old proverb: "One does not feed that hand that bites you". I think this will explain in part why certain regions may seem to be overemphasised when it comes to development and associated advantages .... and others .... are not!

Simply, stop the undemocratic monopoly (the manipulation of constitutional provisions). Allow regional autonomies, others can run their affairs more diligently than forcing an Oshiwambo-speaker on them who cares less but for the graft and self enrichment. Keep diversity in light to flourish and prosperity will follow.

phelakuti,

You are generalising badly! There is good and bad in everybody. There is not one nation, one cultural group or one tribe throughout the whole, wide world that has taken out patent rights on certain moral attributes!

yeah, generalizing can be bad and yes good and bad be found everywhere, but that does not mean we should turn a blind eye to an obvious wrong committed and most certainly will be suicidal to not help correct or at least strive where we sense a cancer in our fragile & precious society

No, Oneword. I do not think it is correct for the one who happens to be in power at a given time to asume the position of the "sole provider" and if that happens to be the case, then this entity ought to be occommodative of diversity, in a positive sense. For if this could be the case, those who bite his hand could be wrongfully ostrasized. Why wrongful, because in this case biting the hand of the feeder is exactly the right thing to do. Can you just imagine if the hand that feedeth cannot be biten. Then what kind of an ideology are you advocating. Rather, the provider and the ruler in a democratic dispensation need be two faces of the same coin. With both doing their respective duties without hinderance from the other. If one presumes a given region that had been won by other then the ruling party to imply biting the hand that feedeth. Such that it could be treated as an alien or foreign and antagonistic foe. That is absurd. Then you could rather advocate for a one "party democracy" and not what you are now trying to create.

phelakuti,

Please, do not misunderstand! I am not proposing anything; I merely offer a reasonably logical explanation for events that are taking place.

I do not "advocate" anything nor do I intend "creating" anything.

The only thing I am doing, is commenting on an existing set of circumstances without either approving or disapproving of these.

Are they really the feeders, or do those with the real resources allow them in the name of politics, to take from their own kitchen , just so they can unfairly distribute what was not theirs? it's an open question, just asking. Other question, until when do we allow this daylight robbery? It be election time, maybe it be time to really point a sharp finga at this cancer loud and clear as it is, who knows???