EDITORIAL: Swapo must provide moral leadership
“How can people who are leading by an extra 30 seats be controlled by others?”
This was the damning verdict, in July 2020, by President Hage Geingob while addressing Swapo members of parliament during an induction course.
He was whining about Swapo MPs playing second-fiddle to the opposition in key debates at the time.
To him, Swapo was underutilising its numerical advantage in the house. The opposite can also be true: When such dominance is used to protect self-preservation, as is often the case, the masses suffer.
In times of so much anger, as presently is the case, Swapo’s numbers become key catalysts for solutions. Numbers allow for amendment of laws that maintain the skewed economic demographics of our country – not to bloat Parliament, create vice president positions or place sole responsibility for fishing quota distribution in the hands of one minister.
Use the legislative dominance to resolve the land issue once and for all. Flex your muscles to scrap laws from yesteryear that have maintained the very status quo that pushed black majorities to the edge of civilisation.
Dominance that serves the parochial economic and political interest of a few has been the only game in town so far. And this must stop.
This was the damning verdict, in July 2020, by President Hage Geingob while addressing Swapo members of parliament during an induction course.
He was whining about Swapo MPs playing second-fiddle to the opposition in key debates at the time.
To him, Swapo was underutilising its numerical advantage in the house. The opposite can also be true: When such dominance is used to protect self-preservation, as is often the case, the masses suffer.
In times of so much anger, as presently is the case, Swapo’s numbers become key catalysts for solutions. Numbers allow for amendment of laws that maintain the skewed economic demographics of our country – not to bloat Parliament, create vice president positions or place sole responsibility for fishing quota distribution in the hands of one minister.
Use the legislative dominance to resolve the land issue once and for all. Flex your muscles to scrap laws from yesteryear that have maintained the very status quo that pushed black majorities to the edge of civilisation.
Dominance that serves the parochial economic and political interest of a few has been the only game in town so far. And this must stop.
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