{"id":421131,"date":"2011-05-10T13:25:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T13:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/10\/whats-the-future-for-the-youth\/"},"modified":"2011-05-10T13:25:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T13:25:31","slug":"whats-the-future-for-the-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/10\/whats-the-future-for-the-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Future for the Youth?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul T Njambula<\/p>\n

6 May 2011<\/p>\n

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opinion<\/p>\n

Namibia is a country four times the size of the UK or Germany and France combined, with a population of only 23 million people, just a bit more than the population of Soweto township in South Africa.<\/p>\n

Our country is one of the richest on the African continent, we are blessed with lots of resources such as diamonds, uranium, lead, tungsten, gold, tin, fluorspar, manganese, marble, copper and zinc. Reports show that unemployment is at 52% and more than 60% of the unemployment people are the youth. We are now officially the country with the highest inequality or the biggest gap between the rich and the poor in the world.<\/p>\n

Then people still ask why crime on the rise in the country. About three weeks ago a tourist couple on their honeymoon were robbed at gunpoint in Swakopmund. This is not a good image for Swakopmund or Namibia in general, it’s scaring away tourists who bring millions of dollars into our economy and create over 60 000 jobs for the Namibian people. The unemployed guy on the street does not care if the tourists never come back to spend money in Namibia again. He is just worried to have his meal.<\/p>\n

It’s been 21 years after the independence of our motherland Namibia, we are still sitting with a few laws and policies from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n

Why are we not changing some of these laws to benefit the majority of Namibia’s population? It does not help if we have good policies on paper but they must be put in action to make them work for the reasons they are created. You can sing “my country, my pride”; that will mean nothing if most of the people are on the streets and hungry.<\/p>\n

It so unbelievable that many of the elected leaders both in the ruling and opposition parties are not supporting or are against the BIG programme. BIG has proved to have made a positive, meaningful change to the families and communities where it had been running as pilot programme.<\/p>\n

When it’s election time, these are the same leaders you see making promises that if they are elected they will work for the people.<\/p>\n

I am not saying BIG is the only way to help the unemployed and the poor people but it can make a big difference. The N$100 of BIG is nothing for those who earn N$5 000 to N$100 000 per month but please don’t be selfish to block or stop it for other others to have food on the table, money for school fees, books etc. There are so many people in townships and villages where the sun rises and sets without seeing or receiving a dollar.<\/p>\n

I have friends Eritrea, a small country in east Africa that was a colony of Italy until 1951 when it was ruled by Ethiopia. In 1993 Eritrea declared its independence and gained international recognition. In terms of their national service regulations of 23 October 1995, national service of six months’ military training and 12 months’ development service (such as labour on construction projects) is compulsory for all Eritrean citizens aged between 18 and 40 years, male and female. Eritrea compared to Namibia is very poor, they do not have resources like we do.<\/p>\n

So why can’t we learn from countries younger than Namibia like Eritrea to have universal national service and give skills the people need to able to get the jobs in mines, construction sites, companies etc. There will be no need to import labour from outside while our own people are on the streets.<\/p>\n

We need to start to talk and tackle these issues now, from Government and political leaders to the guy on the street. Believe it or not we are all in this together whether rich or poor, if we do not change things now while have so many resources then the future will be doom when the resources are finished.<\/p>\n

I truly believe with enough political will and society coming together as one we can solve most of our country problems within 5-10 years even without aid from outside.<\/p>\n

Paul T Njambula is a Namibian Youth<\/em><\/p>\n

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