POVERTY KILLS DIGNITY: When the media proved true the rumours in 2008 that Special Operations Consulting-Security Management Group (SOC-SMG)was in Namibia actively recruiting soldiers (mercenaries) to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008, the Government responded and threw the officials of the company out of the country. But the response from the man on the street was different. What was frightening, was that during this period one observed the re emergence of an Oshiwambo saying which goes “efyo noluhepo, ashishe shimwe ashike” (oshikwanayama) meaning “death and poverty is the same thing” . The few who are socio-economically conscious would have heard this term or its variants uttered by, taxi drivers, the guys at the robots with “painter” and “carpenter boards”, the guys selling news papers etc. Instead of praising the government for chucking the mercenary recruiters, the young men (and ex Plan combatants) saw it as a missed opportunity or rather opportunity denied. It is shameful that we have created a system where our young men are more than willing to risk dying for a few hundred US dollars in a country they can’t even find on the map for a cause they don’t care to understand. This is all because our paved Chinese roads protected chicken industries, imported toilet paper; green lawns; and sectional titles fail to feed our people. The poor and uneducated you man receives no benefit from citizenship besides a birth certificate; an Identify document, the right to vote and the right to go to church(and Hope). The educated smart or connected young people are misled (by fear or poverty and by bad examples set) to think that being a business man means having 100 CCs registered and mastering how to channel money from state coffers into their accounts at SME bank. Sophisticated thieves, that’s what we have become (its not our fault). We are a Nation that locks up taxi drivers for traffic fines for months in cells with murderers. We are nation that stands patiently behind, “do not cross” police lines while our shacks are demolished. They say money doesn’t change people, poverty changes people. We are a nation without a Constitution (if they don’t respect it why should we). Where is the rule of law? Who is in charge. How can we be dignified among this chaos ? Perhaps its true “efyo noluhepo, ashishe shimwe ashike”
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:57:04 +0000
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