EDITORIAL: To a better 2024!
Namibia goes into 2024 leaving a truly challenging year behind it.
It was a landmark year for many families in a truly terrible sense, given that the economic woes and accompanying job losses continued to take food off tables countywide. As a nation, we have also had to come face-to-face with naked greed and corruption, which put the interests of the few above those of the many. We obviously cannot paint all politicians with the same brush, but 2023 has taught us there are those among us who would sell our crown jewels so they, their families and side-kicks can feast, while the rest of us starve. In 2024, there should be a renewed call to civil society activism. As Namibians, we should be at the forefront of demanding action and change from the powers that be. It cannot be right that restorative justice, access to housing and the dignity of a job is still out of reach for the majority of our people. It has become obvious that the rhetoric- and emotion-filled harkening back to the past will not fill our bellies and those of our families. Power must be further held to account in the coming year. The rise of impunity must be stopped in its tracks! In this final print edition of Namibian Sun for the year, we wish all of you a safe and blessed time, and we’ll see you in 2024. ‘Business as usual’ ended in 2023.
It was a landmark year for many families in a truly terrible sense, given that the economic woes and accompanying job losses continued to take food off tables countywide. As a nation, we have also had to come face-to-face with naked greed and corruption, which put the interests of the few above those of the many. We obviously cannot paint all politicians with the same brush, but 2023 has taught us there are those among us who would sell our crown jewels so they, their families and side-kicks can feast, while the rest of us starve. In 2024, there should be a renewed call to civil society activism. As Namibians, we should be at the forefront of demanding action and change from the powers that be. It cannot be right that restorative justice, access to housing and the dignity of a job is still out of reach for the majority of our people. It has become obvious that the rhetoric- and emotion-filled harkening back to the past will not fill our bellies and those of our families. Power must be further held to account in the coming year. The rise of impunity must be stopped in its tracks! In this final print edition of Namibian Sun for the year, we wish all of you a safe and blessed time, and we’ll see you in 2024. ‘Business as usual’ ended in 2023.
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