I stand with South Africans
As Namibians, we should be very careful not to blindly go against South Africans whenever concerns about immigration are raised and immediately label everything as xenophobia. The moment we dismiss every concern as xenophobia, we risk opening ourselves to the same challenges in our Namibia that we work hard to keep peaceful, stable and functional.
South Africans are increasingly being gaslighted to feel that being frustrated about illegal immigration, crime and the ultimate breakdown of their fabric automatically makes them xenophobic. That dangerous oversimplification could easily happen in Namibia too if we are not vigilant.
As Namibians we have built a culture where corruption is not casually accepted. We live in a country where politicians, CEOs, directors, public officials can be arrested when they misuse public resources. That is not just the stance of the Police, the Anti-Corruption Commission, or one political party, but our collective stance as Namibians. We care deeply about our country and what could happen if we become careless.
We challenge wrongdoing in Parliament, on radio stations, in taxis, in newspapers, in offices, in WhatsApp groups, at police stations, in courts, etc. We speak up because we value accountability. That culture is not to be compromised to accommodate skin colour.
Not to say there's zero corruption here, but there is a strong public expectation that leaders must be accountable. We care how the public feels. Even within the ruling party, many people genuinely want progress and national development rather than theft and self-enrichment.
We speak out when public resources are misused that even something as simple as a politician’s child posing on an official government vehicle paid for by taxpayers becomes a national conversation. That level of scrutiny protects our standards unlike I'm other countries where children of the corrupt openly flex with designer clothes and stacks of money.
My concern? If we allow people who ran down their own countries to come here and repeat the same patterns, we risk damaging what we have built. I don't want a Namibia where our children are exposed to more drugs, prostitution, organized crime, or corruption networks because of blind loyalty to a race.
Foreign nationals who come to South Africa should respect the laws of that country. Be there legally, contribute positively, do not come to add to crime, corruption, or instability. Every country already has enough internal challenges to solve.
To me, that is basic respect when you are a visitor in another country. You contribute positively to the house you enter, not negatively, because when things deteriorate, some people can always return home but citizens remain to deal with the consequences.
I stand with the principle that countries have a right to protect opportunities for their own people while still caring lawful, respectful visitors fairly, but not as a priority. I cannot imagine a day where Namibians are made to feel guilty for wanting their children to have priority access to opportunities in their own country.
I have seen situations in sectors like engineering, valuation, land surveying, architecture, health, and other professions where locals struggled to enter industries that foreign professionals were accommodated in. That reality has frustrated many young Namibians trying to build careers because they were being sabotaged, purposely failed in exams even at varsity.
I know we're being gaslighted to believe we can also go and compete for opportunities in those countries. If you're running away from there when it's your home, how stupid am I to believe there's something for me there?
I cannot be tricked out of Namibia.
Our country is beautiful, built through discipline, and we should never fall for labels being put on South Africans for trying to protect what they've built.
I am so deeply disturbed by this video… What kind of government partners with foreigners to give them an economy that has been the livelihood of many South African families ever since the beginning of time???! How cruel are these ppl to use our own tax money against us??
I miss the old SA… random acts of kindness was our everyday norm… always happy to see each other… hoots and greetings in the streets… safety to stay outside, eat and laugh with strangers… kids playing past 7pm in the streets. I miss South Africa 💔
Our government is so focused on us and threatening us that they are not even listening to what foreigners are saying that they will fight to stay in South Africa and that they would rather die than go back to their countries… what does this mean to us as South Africans??
Ever since March and March has started, we have Marched with memorandums to GOVERNMENT, we have held countless meetings with GOVERNMENT, we have presented to parliament that is GOVERNMENT, when we do operations to remove illegal immigrants we do operations with the police and GOVERNMENT, when we make our demands we make them to GOVERNMENT but for some odd reason when people write their think pieces they always say we are fighting the wrong people…? I’m opening up this platform to engage for those who have ideas on what else we need to do that they feel we haven’t done??? Asilwi? Siyabuza
Do you guys know that currently the Department of Basic Education has no idea how many undocumented, illegal foreign children are in our schools but are currently learning?? There are 250 000 foreign children that are documented in our schools… meanwhile there are thousands of South African children estimated to be out of school because they don’t get space ‼️‼️
A Nigerian Drug Dealer was Caught in Durban with Drugs During March and March.
The Continent has the Audacity to say South Africans 🇿🇦are Xenophobic when they’re Fighting to clean their Country and restore order.
Do you guys realise that these African leaders now want to have a say about so called Xenophobia in South Africa? Yet they are mute when Nigerian Christians are killed by Nigerian Muslims and Biko haram is killing young girls, they are quiet when M23 rebels are killing civilians in Congo, they are quiet when Zanu PF is abusing its own people in Zimbabwe, they have failed dismally to say anything about the conflict in Sudan and many other things happening in the continent.
All of these events have killed hundreds of thousands of people and they never said a word as African leaders… but SUDDENLY they now have a voice to talk about so called XENOPHOBIA because we are protesting to get their criminals out of our country?? Don’t you find this to be so interesting?? 🤔 why would this so called Xenophobia be bigger than all these atrocities all over Africa?? We are being abused here!!
[WATCH] “It is not our job to verify. There’s nothing xenophobic about wanting law and order in your country. We don't care what you label us.” March and March leader, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma says those criticising them must do something about the illegal immigration crisis. @NqobileMadlala_ reports
The physically battered body of Bantu Stephen Biko lay in a mortuary near East London in South Africa 🇿🇦 at the time of his post-mortem, 700 miles from the place of his incarceration by the apartheid white security police, shortly after his death on 7 September 1977.
As the South African government continued to propagate lies that Steve Biko had died while on hunger strike, an undercover journalist secretly took the photo of Biko's body and sent it to Britain.
The photo bearing Biko's battered face confirmed to the world that the anti-apartheid student activist had been beaten to death while in prison.
It later emerged that while in police custody, Biko was stripped naked, shackled to the wall, and severely beaten on the head by his interrogators. As a result, he suffered three brain lesions that resulted in a massive brain haemorrhage.
According to an autopsy, an "extensive brain injury" had caused "centralisation of the blood circulation to such an extent that there had been intravasal blood coagulation, acute kidney failure, and uremia".
Leonora Jacobs (formerly Airos), who starred as a child in the 1989 film The Gods Must Be Crazy II, currently lives in Keetmanshoop, Namibia. As of 2023, she is in her 40s, working as a shop assistant, and has expressed that she received little to no payment for her role in the globally successful movie. Leonora lives in her mother’s house with her three children.
She was 5 years old when it was filmed in 1985.
“𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙,” says Namibian actress Leonora Jacobs, revealing she was never paid for her role in the hit 1989 film "𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝘽𝙚 𝘾𝙧𝙖𝙯𝙮."
She expressed that she was very young and didn’t know much about earning as an actress and feels used now that she knows better, especially considering the fact that the movie grossed up to $6.3 million.