The Namibian crisis of self-worth, service and institutional decay – Windhoek Observer

The Namibian crisis of self-worth, service and institutional decay – Windhoek Observer

Shafa Kaulinge There is a difficult conversation Namibia must begin to have with itself. Not a comfortable one, not a politically convenient one, and certainly not one that can be reduced to party politics, race slogans or the usual post-independence excuses. It is a question of what happens to a society when the formerly oppressed inherit the institutions of power, but not always the moral, administrative and emotional discipline required to tr…