Remembering KK: His notable and quotable notes

Namibian Sun looks back at some of the explosive remarks by former youth minister Kazenambo Kazenambo - who died from Covid-19 complications on Tuesday. Here some of his remarks made on Namibian Sun’s The Evening Review and The Agenda talk shows.

On President Hage Geingob

· I never campaigned for President Geingob, it’s a perceived image… Bring me the facts on the table.

· Even President Geingob himself, who is a president today, was pushed out of the Central Committee of Swapo, but he remained. Today he is president.

· Genocide doesn’t cover everybody in this country, it targeted particular tribes and Geingob was playing a dilly-dally about it. I could not play dilly-dally about it. It is an issue that is close to his heart and it is an issue that is close to my heart, but for political reasons. He was playing to the gallery.

· I will say I backed this gentleman but now he is drifting away from Swapo principles and as a guerrilla, I'll manoeuvre my way from the violator of the Swapo constitution.

· President Geingob, with due respect, he must not personalise and turn the Namibian system, the system of government, to himself.

Kazenambo on Swapo

· I associated myself with Team Swapo at the last end of the tail of the campaign.

· I am a defeated proud Swapo member who will remain a Swapo member but I condemn the notion of independent candidates because it creates a precedence in the governance system, in the political system of Namibia, which is out of place, out of norm.

· I’ve been defeated in Swapo. Here I am, I’m not burning the house simply because there are other people, and we have agreed that there are procedures that need to be followed for you to occupy the house, but if I failed, it doesn’t matter. Another round will come; I will not destroy Swapo.

· Swapo must realise that it has lost some of its best brains, youngsters, I can list them here. Youngsters like Swartbooi, whether you like it or not, he was groomed in this organisation. One of the brilliant cadres of this organisation. Seibeb the same, Amupanda the same, Itula the same and so on.

· Swapo is still strong and Swapo is going to battle it out, don’t write it off.

Kazenambo on the genocide

· The problem that we are having here, and this is where the Germans are nailing us, and it’s also where they attempted to nail us on the first round: Here we are divided structurally because firstly, we did not get consensus on how we are going to approach these things between the government of Namibia and the affected community. We never reached any consensus and that’s why, right from the beginning, I am the one who… I’m lashing out at the approach because if the approach is wrong, you won’t get it right and more so if we are dealing with these Germans.

· I don’t have a problem with who is going to be involved with this thing, my biggest problem is the approach we are taking.

· Government from Day One approached this matter as a state matter, government to government… and the minute we did that, the Germans celebrated.

· The way forward is to go back to the drawing table.