AFRICA: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN
Namibia, SWAPO Party and Sam Nujoma are One!

By Udo W. Froese, Johannesburg, South Africa and Windhoek, Namibia

Namibia, gimme some volume! We want to hear your music! Africa shouts: “Mayibuye i’Afrika!” And, “Viva, Namibia, Viva!”

SWAPO Party of Namibia, like MPLA of Angola, like Frelimo of Mozambique, like ZANU-PF of Zimbabwe, like KANU of Kenya and like the ANC of South Africa – they are from Africa. They are Africa! Africa identifies with them, as they are so much an integral part of Africa’s anti-imperial, anti-colonial-settler and anti-racist history. They paid the highest price. They paid with their blood.

One of Africa’s best muses, the late Brenda Fassie sang her African pride out loud, embracing Nelson Mandela and an ANC-led South Africa without imperial colonial-apartheid, where she too could now appear on every stage, not restricted to black townships and squatter camps only.

MaBrrrr, as Fassie was popularly known, reflected the real African. Her hits were sung everywhere in Africa. She spoke isiXhosa, isiZulu, SeTshwana, siPhedi, Tsotsi Taal, English and Afrikaans. She embodied Africanism. Another great African, the late Gibson Kente, trained sis Brenda.

Whether you like it or not, whether this columnist will be discarded as brazenly biased, or not – it is good to be in Africa. One merely has to ask the international Western interest groups – theirs is however a loveless, indifferent, imperial and a greedy exploitational relationship at any cost. It is destabilizing and war mongering, hateful racist and ungodly. Yes, it is un-Christian! Perhaps, the reader of this column might now understand, why Africa in general celebrates Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, when he tells the former imperial-colonial-racist master, Britain and their partners, to “go to hell”.

Remember the old colonial-apartheid Boer description of the British in Africa? They are crudely called “Souties”, or “Sout piele” in the Germanic-Afrikaans language or Boere Taal. Directly translated, this means “salties”, or “salt penises”.

This columnist ventured to ask, why? Their explanation to me was, “die een voet is in Afrika en die ander een in Engeland, maar hul piel hang in die Atlantiese Oseaan”. Translated this reads, “The British have one foot in Africa and the other in England, whilst their penises hang in the (salty) Atlantic Ocean. - Well, those imperial international Western British must have something, other Caucasians might be jealous of.

On the other hand, Africa is not necessarily blessed with that vague international Western export ‘Number One’ to Third World countries – “democracy” and all its other sweet-sounding, cancerous offspring, called “freedoms” of whatever.

As the ‘Caucasian international Western civilized’ destructive obsession with their so-called “balance of power” under the flag of democracy is executed amongst others by their well paid-up uncivil, self-righteous and racist “civil society”, organized crime syndicates and covert operations. And, their creations in the form of “popular opposition politics” continue their harassing attempts to discredit and destablise their own.

Believe it or not, the SADC has its fair share of such un-African attempts, funded and guided by foreign interests. It seems part of the formation of one single block by 2018 - the SADC - that this region is being economically and politically undermined with the willing help of those political non-entities that were turned against their own history for a few Dollars more. Historically, Africa has been the most brutally colonised and re-colonised continent.

Namibia, like Eritrea had been colonised twice: the first time by Germany (this columnist is a product of the Imperial German colonization of Namibia); the second time by South Africa immediately after World War 1, when Namibia was handed over to South Africa as C-Mandate by their international Western creation, the League of Nations, later the United Nations and thirdly, when the largest chunk of Namibia’s economy became South African owned.

Eritrea was first colonised by the Italians and later by the Ethiopians. Today, Eritrea is almost forgotten. To defend neo-imperial-colonial ambitions in Africa is offensive and disrespectful for most Africans.

No matter how irrelevant political minions are, it must be hurtful for their mothers and fathers, their brothers and sisters, their children and their workers, when they become recklessly and viciously desperate and collude against their own kith and kin … for a few Dollars more.

Imagine being part of history and then selling it for small personal gain and leave no legacy for anybody. Senior SWAPO Party leader, Andimba Toivo Ya Toivo once stated wisely, where there are human beings (with egos – the columnist) there are problems. How true.

Imagine, betraying oneself and the principles one once stood for to the point of being prepared to die for? Imagine then, announcing to the general public in Africa as a confirmed and confused renegade and to one’s followers, who are equally confused, that such renegades are “represented at all government institutions, including State House”. What does this say for the incumbent head-of-state? How would a head-of-state deal with such deliberate and intentional undermining? Does he have access to intelligence reports?

It is in Namibia that the Secretary General of the recently formed “Rally for Democracy and Progress, RDP”, Jesaya Nyamu proudly announced, “ RDP is represented everywhere you can think of. Even at State House. They are calling our representatives at State House ‘hibernators’ but those people are on a mission”. As a former senior SWAPO Party member, Nyamu was fired from the party too.

Namibia’s opposition political party, RDP under leadership of fired former senior SWAPO member, Hidipo Hamutenya, split from the ruling SWAPO Party a few years ago, similar to the Congress of Democrats, CoD, under Ben Ulenga.

As repeatedly mentioned, former African political struggle movements who form current governments, are stuck with continuous efforts of destabilisation, character assassination, concerted media onslaughts and vicious propaganda campaigns.

Namibia’s RDP/CoD/DTA; Zimbabwe’s MDC/ZCTU; Kenya’s ODM; Angola’s UNITA; Mozambique’s RENAMO and South Africa’s Cope/DA/UDM/FF+ all sing from the same hymnbook and from the same page, whether or not out of tune, doesn’t really matter. But, it is the old cacophony of the imperial international Western colonial interests in Africa.

The pattern is the same everywhere as the interests remain the same.

However, such noise of confusion reverberates in their own minds only and does not affect the general African public. This is an observation most, if not all representatives from the international West simply cannot understand, therefore not accept. They too are misled by localized greed.

Africa knows this by now. It is nothing new. Therefore it would be solid analysis to assume, SWAPO Party will win this election in Namibia too. In this context this columnist can safely claim that Namibia, SWAPO Party and Sam Nujoma are one.