Namibia: Shot for Wanting a Share of the National Cake

29 August 2014
opinion

IT would be preposterous and presumptuous to condemn the Namibian Police for the fatal shooting of Frida Ndatipo, one of many children of Namibian freedom fighters who have been agitating for a share of the Namibian cake. The children have not been doing anything else but clamouring for such a share like many other Namibians who have since independence been in their own special way pushing, shuffling and jostling for a share of the national economic pie.

While some have since independence been finding this economic struggle plain sailing, siphoning off the country's natural resources and abrogating such for own self-gradisement, and through devious means, like dubious investment schemes, with funds like the GIPF's serving as a gravy source to a selected few in this regard, and with many having done so with impunity, yet for others the sailing has not been that smooth.

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