EDITORIAL: Nekongo barking up the wrong tree
Swapo Party Youth League secretary Ephraim Nekongo’s anger towards whites - instead of his party’s cowardly approach to the issue of land and the general economy - is misplaced and inflammatory.
Swapo is the custodian of government policy, not white people. The failures, inequality and inequities endured over the past 33 years have been presided over by no one else but the ruling party. Yes, the whites had inherently been favoured by history. And that was because a regime that favoured them tailored policies to empower and emancipate the white man.
If the white regime empowered its kith and kin through policy, why has the Swapo government failed to replicate the same for the black majority - despite the power and mandate handed to the party?
Nekongo attributed Meatco's financial difficulties to the red line, yet his party’s government is currently spending taxpayer funds in court to defend this divisive fence it has maintained for 33 years. Of course, farmers south of the red line – whether white, black or khaki – have vested interest in seeing the status quo maintained, but what has Nekongo, as a lawmaker, and the ruling party done about it?
In a free-market economy, those intending to establish a competing meat company cannot be held accountable for Meatco's inefficiencies. If anything, they should be encouraged to go ahead and offer economic options to the nation and its people.
Swapo is the custodian of government policy, not white people. The failures, inequality and inequities endured over the past 33 years have been presided over by no one else but the ruling party. Yes, the whites had inherently been favoured by history. And that was because a regime that favoured them tailored policies to empower and emancipate the white man.
If the white regime empowered its kith and kin through policy, why has the Swapo government failed to replicate the same for the black majority - despite the power and mandate handed to the party?
Nekongo attributed Meatco's financial difficulties to the red line, yet his party’s government is currently spending taxpayer funds in court to defend this divisive fence it has maintained for 33 years. Of course, farmers south of the red line – whether white, black or khaki – have vested interest in seeing the status quo maintained, but what has Nekongo, as a lawmaker, and the ruling party done about it?
In a free-market economy, those intending to establish a competing meat company cannot be held accountable for Meatco's inefficiencies. If anything, they should be encouraged to go ahead and offer economic options to the nation and its people.
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