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Economic emancipation from what if colonialism is gone?

Arguably, the biggest challenge facing many impoverished Namibians today is economic emancipation. Arguably, because in itself, without much elucidation, the term "economic emancipation" is not only meaningless but senseless – especially ideologically.

Windhoek Observer7 Aug 2026, 03:26 am
Economic emancipation from what if colonialism is gone?

Kae Matundu Tjiparuro

Arguably, the biggest challenge facing many impoverished Namibians today is economic emancipation.

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Arguably, because in itself, without much elucidation, the term “economic emancipation” is not only meaningless but senseless – especially ideologically.

Particularly hearing that 35 years after the country is believed to have been free and independent, it is not and actually has not been, by the politicians’ own admission, in view of the realisation, if only post facto, by the Swapo Party of Namibia itself.

It is strange that the country has not been free yet, while with the lowering of the apartheid South African flag on 21 March 1990 and the hoisting of Namibia’s own, this is the day the country must and should have been free.

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Originally published by Windhoek Observer on 7 Aug 2026, 03:26 am. View original article
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