Prosperity for all

Allow me to start by defining prosperity, which is the state of flourishing, thriving, good fortune or successful social status.

Prosperity often encompasses wealth, but also includes other factors which can be independent of wealth to varying degrees, such as happiness and health.

Feeling prosperous begins within and if one gets their mind right one can attract all that they want into their life.

As a nation, we have heard about the inclusive house many a time, which speaks volumes to the current state affairs in Namibia. If this notion was fully captured locally, surely our nation could be in a much better state today, and the sky-high poverty and unemployment levels would be a thing of the past.

But alas, we still reel under a very dark cloud of corruption, mistrust, anger, greed and selfishness, among many social evils that still bedevil our nation, much to the vexation of the majority, as the few privileged ones benefit.

Like Anurag Prakash Ray said, “Positive thinking and positive attitude attracts prosperity, peace, and happiness. It also exposes us towards the path of achievements and success.”

If as a nation, especially the leaders were to espouse this noble notion of prosperity for all, this country with all its plenty of resources could be a nation par excellence within the region and Africa as a whole.

Rather we find the leadership housed in cabinet fostering for these social ills to continue unabated, because they and their cronies are massively benefiting from what is currently going on in this country.

Prosperity for all should encompass all and sundry and failure to have this now means we still have issues of abuse of power in many aspect. Many families have collapsed and continue to do so because of the moral decay that is threatening both the rich and the poor of our society.

This has been worsened by the current and ongoing job losses in various sectors of the economy, leading to the mushrooming of social ills among our people.

We have turned our people into mendicants who just look out only for today and admittedly adopted the saying that “tomorrow we will make a plan”, which is not how a society and nation that espouses the notion of prosperity for all should function.

Have we lost this positive thinking that has prosperity inscribed within us to be able to look back and want a better Namibia that has everybody benefiting equally, and stop with the greedy mentality.

One person will have enough resources to feed a whole neighbourhood and yet fail to assist his fellow countrymen who are in dire need of basic human rights such as food, shelter and clothing, for them to survive.

It has been said already that if Namibia was to fully utilise and divide its resources equally with such a small population, there would be no unemployment, if not a very small percent of the population, probably due to other factors but not because of the current greed.

If we as leaders we want a Namibia that has prosperity for all, why don't we start looking at this possibility and begin from the grassroots, and surely we will reach this point in the next ten to 20 years without fail.

This can only be achieved if we as a nation move in one direction and with one purpose - to better each and every life in this great nation. Every life matters in Namibia.

By: McHenry Venaani