Self Service or Public Service

SAPIENS WRITES:We are again in the season of lip service (promises and manifestos) by all competing political parties. They want your votes, so they can experience power. They are first in line for the benefits.A manifesto is a verbal contract of intention. The best predictor of future performance, after 35 years, is past performance.The census exposed vast differences in socio-economic status – unemployment, shacks, food insecurity, shebeens and genders based violence/assaults/accidents.If you make a promise, you have to have the means and ability to deliver the promised golden baby in the labour ward of politics.See Katutura Intermediate Hospital, and the polished golden Chinese baby at Swapo party headquarters.A promise repeatedly made and not kept, is a broken promise. The public cannot eat votes. The politicians who represent you in the National Assembly and National Council benefit from comfort and security. The promise of shared progress – Vision 2030, is distant.The results of recent elections in the world and in Africa, highlight the need for an economic living wage (food and housing) in the USA, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and Mauritius.Zimbabwe is a failed state. The voters are fed up with corrupt, self-servicing, incompetent politicians.Namibia has the opportunity to be a beacon of good governance and a free and fair election on 27 November 2024.We are the Land of the Brave, with the hope for a better future in a “we” partnership of potential.* Rubrieke, meningstukke, briewe en SMS’e deur lesers en meningvormers weerspieël nie noodwendig die siening van Republikein of Namibia Media Holdings (NMH) nie. As mediahuis onderskryf NMH die etiese kode vir Namibiese media, soos toegepas deur die Media-ombudsman.

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