SWAPO Failure: Reality, not a myth

[Oneword]

For the sake of the continent and its people .... maybe just too slowly!

[Lumumba]

"It's like an initiation rite of passage in a gang, and it seems to be the language and mindset that allows you to enter the group"

That's exactly how it seems Comrade, and the behaviours of most of SWAPO's "big Shots" , precisely, ressemble those of gang members. The SWAPO establishment is a very hypocritical one. During day time, they are warning us about the terrible western imperialists with their evil hidden agendas while in the darkness they make deals with one Templesman and sell all our copper to Witherly International ? They demonise other parties for lobying for foreign financial assistance, calling them "foreign funded" while they themselves receive huge financing from sources like the Chinese Communist Party, who themselves aren't exactly Namibian. And mind you, this is the same China who so ethical and send some guns & ammo to Mugabe despite all the signs that they are more likely to be used against civilians, just like in Matebele land back in the 80s.

Instead of engaging Mugabe and his generals they go ahead and motivate him to extend the misery of the Zmbabwean people. Why? Its just because SWAPO and ZANU-PF are all plastic parties based on the same principle of sycophancy. The difference between SWAPO and ANC is that ,the ANC as a party, generaly stands by ethical principles most of the time attempts to satify the general public rather than protect individuals. Classic examples are numerous, from the decision to initiate the TRC, the way they elects their leadership, to their recent call for Mugabe to "behave appropriatelly" ( totaly the opposite of SWAPO isn't it?).

[tjommie]

let me be optimistic! If I am, reading correctly, and if this signals a change in mindset....hhhmmm....then WELL DONE to Deputy Minister Kazenambo Kazenambo wrt the redistibution of wealth to local people who have mines and tourism hubs in their vicinity....

Let locals benefit from mineral resources

This is the type of parlimentary debate contributions and utterances that we want to hear and we want to see being followed by some ACTION. It could also be some lip service too with no real political will behind it.....

I am however very sceptical and I'm just wondering if SWAPO allowed this sickness of corruption, bribery and self-enrichment to last a little to long to such an extent that it has taken root as the "Naturally Namibian" way of doing things.....I sincerely hope not....

[Pietro]

Why? So that they can first buy Q7s, Prados, MBs, LandCruisers and RangeRovers and build multi-million NAD houses????????????


Contradict this !!!!! IF you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Oneword]

tjommie, my china!

I am so glad you quoted KK. This is a bit infra dig, but he would really be one of the last to become too prominent on this issue - unless, of course, he referred to specific, individual members of the community only!

[Pietro]

You mean his studies and the quotas????????????????????????????

[pumba]

If you look at most of the SADC country's, the ruling parties of these country's messed up big time.

Look at Zimbobwe, look at SA (ANC), look at Namibia. Self - enrichment, corruption, abuse, torture, big time poverty, monsterous palaces being built.

I agree with Steve Biko (you could have picked a better name) that SWAPO has messed up, and yes, I also agree that nobody else would have done any better.

Fact is, African leaders cannot rule, they do not have their people at hear, only self - enrichment, corruption etc etc.

Yes, the white's did not do any better with apartheid, but at lease they accomplished something, they built up SA and Namibia from scratch, they left Namibia with a decent infrastructure.

[pumba]

Originally Posted by SteveBiko

With the population of about 2 milion people coinciding with the vast wealth mother nature gifted to this lovely, huge land of ours, why oh why should we have more than 50% of our population living along the poverty line? The answer, however, is fairly simple: Whoever is managing our wealth and resources isn't doing it right. Surely, there can be no escape whatsoever from this answer. If the administrator of this failure is the SWAPO government, then SWAPO failed dismisally.

SWAPO did not fail because Hidipo Hamutenya & co said so, SWAPO failure is manifestered in our every day life. They cannot prioritise matters for starters. They were supposed to initiate well managed industrial projects with the aim to substitute the importation of basic commodities like food stuff, basic services( like financial, construction, etc) that can actually bear fruits instead of embarking upon projects whose needs are, clearly, not so urgent. One of SWAPO's big failure is also manifested by the fact that they don't want to recognize most of the fearless men and women who fought for independence inside Namibia. All you here is " the ex-combatants". This people were even worse off considering the fact that they were defenceless, had no where to run or hide and, therefore, at the mercy of the Kovoet barbarians all the time. Take a drive (or walk for that matter) in the streets of Katutura. All you see written on the faces of most of those you encounter is destitution and hopelessnes. If you go to the Babylon, Okahandja Park, Shitenda locations especialy, you will be forgiven for thinking that you are in some war ravaged country. The situation is so bad that the call for the councilors, or whichever officials responsible for the development of these communities, to be criminally charged is not absurd all. I understant that every nation has its ghettos but the situation in our shantty towns are way too inhumane. And this is the capital city, can you imagine how the situation is like in the smaller towns and rural areas? SWAPO pat itself on the back for providing ater and electricity to SOME rural areas, this can also be viewed as a self serving act because if they didn't do it, only Dr Sam Nuyoma and probably Hons. Pahamba, Iithana and Ekanjo will vote for SWAPO. In the Southern, Caprivi, Kavango, regions there's hardly anything new after independence( and I don't want to bore you with the details about our Education, Health, and all other Social Services which are in utter shambles). I could go on and on, eventually writting a book the size of the bible about the SWAPO failures.

Let me tell you how things started. After indepentence, SWAPO had still not firmly rubber stamped their authority in Namibia. so, accordingly big positions where handed out to the best psychophantic element who can sing the SWAPO( and you know is SWAPO, don't you?) songs the loudest. Qualification and experience was never a condition. As a result, crucial developmental projects and responsibilities fell to incompetent individuals who has the brain of a forth grader. Policies are oftenly coied and pasted from various sources and you expect a Tanganyika veteran to implement it? What a laugh! And this sort of praise singers, knowing that they were appointed by the power that be, were at liberty to do whatever they deemed fit with national resources without any fear of prosecution or any form of punishment whatsoever. Since our justice system does not seem to recognize the theft of tax payers' money as a criminal offence, the 'oshimbwango' set in and "comrades" in previleged positions placed their own and their famillies' interests above anything else, without a single thought about the law or its consequences. Now after fattening their pockets, obviously, they become disinterested and lost all the sincerity in their work to develop the entire country or spread the benefits to the ordinary Namibian. Development became a political tool used to reward those strategically important to the SWAPO power base and with held to those who are deemed not worth it. The liberation heroes turned into vultures who are simply in the look out for more projects exploit.

Wandering why all the support still,huh? Let me break it down for you ,ok? Swapo gained their popularlity and everybody's support when it was realy deserved. Most of us were so fed up with the oppression that we viewed SWAPO in the same light the Israelites viewed Moses. SWAPO went ahead, organized then "won" the independence. This earned them the cult status confered upon it by many, usually, illiterate Namibians. To many poor (both in financialy and educationally) Namibian the only oppresion that exist in their mind is colonial, by white people of course, therefore, any other form of oppression, from fellow black Namibians for instance, is a myth or propaganda. They don't believe that their liberation sruggle heroes can be as devilish as to disregard them when the sharing of the independence cake is concerned. This is the reason why you see bare footed villagers walking 15km to fetch water fully donned in SWAPO colurs and ready "to defend the revolution" . Blind loyality indeed brought about by the utter lack of education in the first place.The people are actually cheering on the bunch of burgoisies that oversees the missery they are complaining about ( the poor health, education, low pension for the elders etc) ? I am not educated myself but things like that makes me realize how crucial is this education thing. Swapo knows this and theymaking a killing for it while stock lasts. Our situation is a carbon copy of Zimbabwe, you know. The Zimbabwean people suffered for long enuogh before the bone breaking poverty finally awaken the average man that the "aluta continua" slogan isn't realy feeding anyone. Soon every Namibian will understand that our sporadic poverty and unemployment level is 100% made in Namibia(its also an unregistered member Team Namibia).

I agree 100% on this topic, the SWAPO cadre is failing this country, they are self - enriching themselves, corrupting the whole Government, creating major poverty issues due to their continued outsourcing of building projects to their Chinese comrades. Everything SWAPO touches they bugger up in the end.

Independence brought a lot of good things for this country, but SWAPO's corrupt incompetent leadership is not one of them.