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09 July 2010.

The Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) wishes to inform the public that it will hold its 2nd Ordinary Central Committee meeting scheduled for the 17th – 18th July 2010 here in the capital.  The meeting is expected to be attended by all 72 Central Committee members plus special invited guests.

THE OMUSATIZATION OF NAMIBIANGOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS: IS OMUSATI CLIQUE REAL OR IMAGINED?

The objective of this article is to try and provide an insight into the Omusatization of Namibian government institutions by a clique within the ruling SWAPO Party. The word “Omusati” means Mopani Tree which is widely prevalent in much of the north western parts of Namibia covering the areas of Kaokoland (Kunene), Ongandjera, Uukologhadhi, Uukwaludhi, Ombalantu, Uukwaambi and Okalongo (till they were instigated to secede from Ohangwena). All these (except Kaokoland which is part of Kunene) different tribal areas were combined to form one region now called Omusati Region.

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The present Namibian government is failing to govern this country ably, productively, justly, transparently and fairly. Currently, the economy is unable to address the basic needs of most Namibians. The most burning issues among these basic needs of the people is the nation’s dwindling income, due largely to the catastrophic decline in employment whose rate is now at 51.2%. Over the last twenty years, the government has failed dismally to come up with tangible, coherent and comprehensive strategy for job creation and economic growth. In other words, it has been incapable of responding positively and forcefully to this basic and crying national needs.
At the same time, our country’s authorities have allowed corruption to become rampant in public institutions so much so that it is very difficult nowadays to talk about accountability in the country’s public sector management.

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