Namibia News - Press Blackout

The highly anticipated debate at the Katutura Community Hall on 13 November was completely ignored by the daily press. 

The message of cross-party unity and solidarity on the issue of housing and land, that was repeated by speaker after speaker, runs counter the whole narrative of the mainstream press, which maintains the fiction that there are significant differences between the old parties, when clearly one can hardly fit a cigarette paper between them.

That meeting was noteworthy, if only because people from so many different walks of life resolved to set aside racial, party-political and ethnic differences to work for a broader legal solution to the shortage of housing and affordable land; a solution to the benefit of all citizens.

The atmosphere of working class solidarity was demonstrated by the way all speakers voluntarily removed their party colours in order to show unity with the cause.

Above all the press failed to report that the Katutura meeting backed a common demand for a Constitutional Amendment to address the need for residential land.

The meeting further agreed to campaign for a new law to ensure one residential erf to each citizen as a basic Constitutional Right.

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