UPDATE: The Lethal Shot that announced the End of Democracy in Namibia

On 27 August 2014 Frieda Ndatipo was shot dead when a group of protesters clashed with police officers in front of Swapo head  office in Windhoek. You can read more about that and watch the video HERE
After a public outcry then Prime Minister Dr. Hage Geingob instructed the Ombudsman to carry out an impartial investigation into the incident. The Ombudsman's report was handed to Justice Minister Albert Kawana in December 2014. It was not made public.
It took another 4 months before prosecutor general Martha Imalwa decided NOT to prosecute anyone in this case. 
Now Minister Kawana has requested an inquest to be held, as we are told HERE 

The very fact that a)it took 7 months to come to the decision of b)NO prosecution proves that something is very wrong here. 

Allowing the police to carry and use live ammunition on their own initiative is a violation of Article 6 of the Namibian Constitution, which forbids the death penalty and executions.   Allowing them to open fire at demonstrators once again violates Article 17. 

The decision of the prosecutor general to NOT prosecute anyone in this case is either a sign of gross incompetence or an acknowledgement of the fact that we now live in a police state.

A Lethal Shot Announces the End of Democracy in Namibia

On the very day parliament passed the third Amendment of the Namibian Constitution, police fired on a  demonstrating crowd, killing Frieda Ndatipo, a young mother of three.

As one commenter puts it:"The needless killing of this young woman in front of Swapo HQ is tragic and also highly symbolic of the real state of affairs. It marks the bloody end of an era of hope and the beginning of a new phase of struggle in which Swapo will no longer be the automatically regarded as 'the sole and authentic representative of the Namibian people', but as a dangerous agency prepared to shoot down unarmed women. The death of this protester on 27 August 2014 will mark a turning-point in the political orientation of the youth and in their struggle for equal rights."

Now I am asking: is ALLOWING the use of live ammunition against demonstrators in a country that A) forbids executions(Art.6) and B)expressly allows peaceful political activities(Art.17) not a contradiction in itself? Especially when acknowledging that people can panic in certain situations?

Of course the SWAPO government immediately puts the blame on someone else once again, claiming a third force being involved in this shooting and their supporters of course start parroting Hage Geingob's words.

Seeing that Namibia has no independent institution to investigate this incident, it will just be swept under the carpet like so many other incidents. 

Namibian Police again violate the Constitution in public

It has become normal practice for the Namibian Police to violate the rights of the inhabitants. With the recent visit of UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, to Namibia, the police once again openly demonstrated their absolute disdain for the
Namibian Constitution, the Supreme law of the land.

According to a media report they threw a community activist into a police van in full view of the public. I have personally seen that kind of action on a previous occasion, when a police officer literally threw my grandson into the back of his van without him having shown any resistance at all. The officer just told him to get out of the car and as soon as he did that, the officer grabbed him, threw him into the van and drove off, no explanation, no reading of rights, nothing. I and my granddaughter were so shocked, we could barely drive the car back to the police station. We were too shocked to even think of laying a charge against that officer right away. Reading that media report now, nearly two years after our incident, the whole episode once again comes alive and puts me in psychological turmoil.

It is an open violation of our right to dignity as stipulated in Article 8(2) of the Namibian Constitution. It is also a violation of article 11(1). Now I am asking: how can the Namibian police force be allowed to violate our Supreme law in that way without any repercussions? isn't it a clear sign that our Constitution is no longer the supreme law of the land? Isn't it a clear sign that the ruling party, SWAPO, does not recognize and uphold our Constitution as they are supposed to?
The situation being as it is, it is our civil duty as inhabitants of the country to hold our civil servants accountable for their actions. If they don't protect and uphold the Constitution, we the people have the duty to do it in order to stay a free country. We have to know, claim and defend our rights in order to live as a free people.

City Councils Vendetta against owner of Day-Care center in Okahandja

Okahandja has it's share of street kids, like most towns in Namibia have. A few of them really live all by themselves on rubbish dumps, scavenging whatever food they find there. Most of them, however, have some kind of place they call home, where they can go to sleep. Yet during the day they are left to fend for themselves as their parents, if they still have those, attend to their respective low paid jobs or other activities and cannot look after their kids, never mind pay for any kind of day care. Many of the parents suffer from TB and alcohol abuse.


Yet Okahandja also has one woman who opened her heart to these kids. At her mothers home she started cooking meals for those kids. Since she herself is a single mother of four without means, she lobbied for donors to help with supplies for the food she cooked daily. The group of kids quickly grew to more than 80 and she had to find her own place. She bought 4 stands from city council in 2010 and is in possession of their deed of sale. City council, however, then went and resold those stands to someone else. This case is handled by lawyers at this stage. City then offered her an unserviced stand to pacify her. She paid for that but cannot use it unserviced. Then she was given the right to buy another serviced stand which is zoned as residential, for which she paid N$10000. She put up a crude corrugated iron shelter as kitchen,office and bedroom and went on feeding and caring for the kids until the city council allowed a brick maker (SWAPO supporter) to start his operation on her stand. This endangered the lives of the kids she cared for and made her question the integrity of city councilors when allocating stands. 

Belinda //Ga­roës is an activist for truth and transparency in government. She informs people of their rights and lobbies against irregularities in city council. She started fighting for her rights by moving to an empty stand in an adjacent area, seeing that anybody can settle down wherever he wants these days ( Article 21/1(h)) and many informal settlements thus pop up everywhere around our towns. She promptly got harassed, mishandled, beaten and arrested together with her son for doing this. In the van she found a box with stuff and some matches (which should not have been there), so she put the box on fire to make them open the door so that her son could escape out of the van. Then she was sued for damage to state property and incarcerated in the pretrial facility in Okahandja. She was released five days later, after having paid bail. Her trial date is set for 8 May 2014.

All our news media are run by SWAPO, the ruling party. Of course their reporting is biased and finely tuned to reflect their views. Only at the very end of their story they mention the deeds of transfer in Belinda's possession. No one trying to publish the truth will be accepted, as I have experienced repeatedly now and documented on this blog.    

Fact is that only SWAPO members count for anything in Namibia today. They get jobs, they get houses, their settlements are serviced, their schools and day-care centers are supported. All others fight in vain for their rights as Namibians.