NDP 5 translations necessary
Residents of the Otjozondjupa Region on Friday called on the government to translate the Fifth National Development Plan document into indigenous languages.
The Otjozondjupa residents made this call after a presentation on the development plan by senior officials of the National Planning Commission at the Swanevelder Community Hall in Otjiwarongo.
“This document is very important. It should be translated into languages which people understand better,” said a senior traditional councillor in the Kambazembi Royal Traditional Authority, Annie Ngujapeua.
Ngujapeua told Nampa afterwards that NDP4 was not translated into any vernacular, adding that the majority of people in the Okakarara Constituency still did not know what had been achieved in NDP4.
Grootfontein town councillor Tjeripo Tjikuua also called on the government to make sure the NDP5 document is translated for everyone to understand.
Tjikuua suggested the document could be summarised in indigenous languages.
NPC spokesperson Fillemon Nangonya in a telephone interview with Nampa on Friday agreed with the Otjozondjupa residents' concerns.
“Yes I agree with them, and NDP5 will be translated,” he said.
Nangonya said the commission was still calculating the cost of translating and printing the NDP5 document.
He said a decision had been made to translate the NDP5 document into Otjiherero, Oshiwambo, Rukavango, Setswana, Afrikaans, Damara-Nama, Silozi, San languages and Braille.
The deputy permanent secretary in the NPC, Sylvester Mbangu, said the government had decided to popularise the NDP5 to the regional and local governments and institutions dealing with the implementations at grassroots level.
Mbangu said the implementation of NDP5 was ready, and his office had embarked on popularising it in the different regions.
His team on Thursday visited the Oshikoto Region and Khomas is next.
The NDP5 is founded on four pillars - economic planning, social transformation, environmental sustainability and good governance.
NAMPA
The Otjozondjupa residents made this call after a presentation on the development plan by senior officials of the National Planning Commission at the Swanevelder Community Hall in Otjiwarongo.
“This document is very important. It should be translated into languages which people understand better,” said a senior traditional councillor in the Kambazembi Royal Traditional Authority, Annie Ngujapeua.
Ngujapeua told Nampa afterwards that NDP4 was not translated into any vernacular, adding that the majority of people in the Okakarara Constituency still did not know what had been achieved in NDP4.
Grootfontein town councillor Tjeripo Tjikuua also called on the government to make sure the NDP5 document is translated for everyone to understand.
Tjikuua suggested the document could be summarised in indigenous languages.
NPC spokesperson Fillemon Nangonya in a telephone interview with Nampa on Friday agreed with the Otjozondjupa residents' concerns.
“Yes I agree with them, and NDP5 will be translated,” he said.
Nangonya said the commission was still calculating the cost of translating and printing the NDP5 document.
He said a decision had been made to translate the NDP5 document into Otjiherero, Oshiwambo, Rukavango, Setswana, Afrikaans, Damara-Nama, Silozi, San languages and Braille.
The deputy permanent secretary in the NPC, Sylvester Mbangu, said the government had decided to popularise the NDP5 to the regional and local governments and institutions dealing with the implementations at grassroots level.
Mbangu said the implementation of NDP5 was ready, and his office had embarked on popularising it in the different regions.
His team on Thursday visited the Oshikoto Region and Khomas is next.
The NDP5 is founded on four pillars - economic planning, social transformation, environmental sustainability and good governance.
NAMPA
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