Subject Gospel according to Swapo?

By Austin Kwenani, Namibia

Christoph Maletsky sunk to new lows with his piece “The Gospel according to Swapo” in The Namibian of Wednesday, 20 January 2010. While not surprising, Mr. Maletsky again demonstrates his hatred for SWAPO Party by implying that SWAPO Party members regard SWAPO as being superior to religion. What he doesn’t say is that SWAPO Party has a culture of praying before and after every rally. What Maletsky confuses is SWAPO Party's unrivaled support among the people of Namibia and the right of every individual to belong or not to belong to any religion. Maletsky’s gimmick have been tried by others before and failed.

At the height of the liberation struggle, propaganda leaflets were distributed to suggest that SWAPO will destroy all churches if SWAPO wins the elections because communists don’t believe in God. These tactics were widely used by the apartheid regime and their local puppets. But the Namibian people saw through them as cheap propaganda aimed at derailing the independence process. SWAPO still won in 1989. It won again in 1994, 1999, 2004 and 2009. It will again next month in Okahandja in spite of how Maletsky and others opposed to the prevailing agenda feel.

Maletsky’s comments on the SWAPO Party anthem is the worst lunacy I have heard this year and deserves to be ignored. Suffice to say that the Namibian people understand Maletsky’s motives.

By Austin Kwenani, Proud Swapo Party Member.