It’s not politicising
It’s not politicising when pointing out that had the living conditions of Walvis Bay’s Twaloloka residents been better, Sunday night’s ravaging fire wouldn’t have reduced to ashes virtually everything it its sight.
Indeed, it’s not politicising issues when heralding the fact that fewer than three million people in a country measuring 825 419 km² each ought to have land of their own.
When residents of the country’s largest fishing town cannot accrue benefits from their endowed sea to live a dignified life – because fishing quotas are given to individuals instead of communities – it can never be politics when pointing this anomaly out.
If anything, politicising is when leaders of government and the ruling elite line up suddenly to make pedestrian donations to the affected community.
It’s politics at its vintage best when, after failing the same people for decades, one suddenly pretends to care by dishing out mattresses, blankets and tins of pilchards.
The Swapo Party Youth League, instead of donating N$50 000 to the affected families like it announced yesterday, should be a leading and consistent voice for the transformation of society into one that lives a dignified life.
Instead of spending a lion’s share of its time defending the wrongs in the mother party, SPYL ought to be speaking truth to power and alerting their principals to real-life challenges facing the masses.
Servitude should be to the people of this country and not leaders.
Indeed, it’s not politicising issues when heralding the fact that fewer than three million people in a country measuring 825 419 km² each ought to have land of their own.
When residents of the country’s largest fishing town cannot accrue benefits from their endowed sea to live a dignified life – because fishing quotas are given to individuals instead of communities – it can never be politics when pointing this anomaly out.
If anything, politicising is when leaders of government and the ruling elite line up suddenly to make pedestrian donations to the affected community.
It’s politics at its vintage best when, after failing the same people for decades, one suddenly pretends to care by dishing out mattresses, blankets and tins of pilchards.
The Swapo Party Youth League, instead of donating N$50 000 to the affected families like it announced yesterday, should be a leading and consistent voice for the transformation of society into one that lives a dignified life.
Instead of spending a lion’s share of its time defending the wrongs in the mother party, SPYL ought to be speaking truth to power and alerting their principals to real-life challenges facing the masses.
Servitude should be to the people of this country and not leaders.
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