DTA is rebranding
DTA president McHenry Venaani, at the opening ceremony of the party's central committee meeting Saturday in Windhoek, presented the plan for the party's renaming and logo change for approval.
The central committee is expected to refer the final decision to an extra-ordinary congress of DTA to be held on 4 November 2017, one day before the 40-year celebration of the party, he said.
“It is only fitting that as we begin our year of transformation we align it with honouring and remembering what and who planted the seeds from which the branches grew,” Venaani explained.
According to him the central committee of the DTA at its meeting in October 2016 unanimously agreed to rebrand and rename the party.
He said the management committee of the party was tasked to consult widely and report back on a new name, but still have some stop-overs to make throughout the country before the official rebranding date.
Venaani also made known his disdain for corruption. According to him there is a new, ideology in Namibia that designs development projects in such a way that they are open to mass looting and corruption.
“There is barely national development project undertaken in the country that is not marred in the controversy of tender price inflation, nepotism and other social evils designed to rob taxpayers,” he said.
He added the collapse of corporate governance has become a norm and used SME Bank and RCC as examples, saying corruption is increasingly becoming institutionalised in Namibia.
He also touched on the issue of education bemoaning the slow rate at which infrastructure is being improved in rural areas.
He called for new out-of-the-box thinking to be found to create cheaper and easier models of improving school infrastructure.
The central committee is expected to refer the final decision to an extra-ordinary congress of DTA to be held on 4 November 2017, one day before the 40-year celebration of the party, he said.
“It is only fitting that as we begin our year of transformation we align it with honouring and remembering what and who planted the seeds from which the branches grew,” Venaani explained.
According to him the central committee of the DTA at its meeting in October 2016 unanimously agreed to rebrand and rename the party.
He said the management committee of the party was tasked to consult widely and report back on a new name, but still have some stop-overs to make throughout the country before the official rebranding date.
Venaani also made known his disdain for corruption. According to him there is a new, ideology in Namibia that designs development projects in such a way that they are open to mass looting and corruption.
“There is barely national development project undertaken in the country that is not marred in the controversy of tender price inflation, nepotism and other social evils designed to rob taxpayers,” he said.
He added the collapse of corporate governance has become a norm and used SME Bank and RCC as examples, saying corruption is increasingly becoming institutionalised in Namibia.
He also touched on the issue of education bemoaning the slow rate at which infrastructure is being improved in rural areas.
He called for new out-of-the-box thinking to be found to create cheaper and easier models of improving school infrastructure.
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