FORGET about Vision 2030, forget about all the NDPs that ministers, and politicians talk about at public rallies as they travel around the country and have to say something to justify their S&T. One person remarked that the entire country is waiting for 2030 while the top politicians and their family members are draining all the country's resources.

Forget about the Congress of Democrats (CoD) election manifesto, which has collected dust in their offices while the party leaders are fighting over the Government grant cheque. The DTA, Nudo, Swnau, RDP and the rest have become social clubs as they face extinction.

My point is while political parties all over the world carry the aspirations and the dreams of a nation, our political parties have simply lost the plot and Namibians no longer have a dream.

Since the collective dream of independence has been achieved, Namibians have nothing in common and we have become too individualistic.

We no longer ask ourselves what I can do to contribute to the well being of my country? We are too pre-occupied with trying to make a quick million so that we can show off to the poor that we have arrived.

While in some countries, people boast about jobs they have created, how they are contributing to the GDP or the charity work they do in their communities, for us Namibians it's all about the cars we drive and the clothes we wear.

The motto is simple, 'if I am fine, I do not care about the rest'.

In Namibia, we have nothing we can call a Namibian dream. Individually or collectively, we do not try hard enough to make Namibia a better place.

A simple example, with the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, many Namibians are planning to go and I am sure our Cabinet will be empty as every minister will find an excuse to be in South Africa.

But what have we done as a country to make sure that our beloved country can benefit from this big occasion, which will have spin-offs in millions of dollars? Nothing!

We all just trying to make our own millions to go to South Africa and nobody cares about Namibia as a country.

We need leaders that can dream. Even dreams that we can get water from the Congo River to set a feedlot at Karasburg, leaders in the political and business arena that dream of making Namibia a better place in the world.

Why can Namibia not become an African Singapore? We need leaders that can dream of turning the Namib Desert into a ' SADC breadbasket'. Simply put we need dreamers.

I think Vision 2030 means nothing until we all start dreaming about Namibia becoming a better place and forget living fancy lives at the expense of the country.