Thread: Statement on racist remarks by Swapo Secretary General and Justice Minister Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana

And it is not the first time either, Mrs Iivula-Ithana. These comments - if found to be true - are not fit for a Minister of Justice and reprehensible. When will senior politicians and leaders like Ithana and Nujoma learn to use appropriate language and reflect in their speech that they are also bound by the Constitution and the laws of our Republic pertaining to racism and hate speech?

Not so quick, Comrade! What did she, or did she not say? Why jump to conclusions before you even read what she allegedly say?

Heres' the article in none other than The Namibian of yesterday:

The Namibian is a bad newspaper: Iivula-Ithana

By: OSWALD SHIVUTE at OMUNGWELUME
JUSTICE MINISTER Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana on Saturday laid into The Namibian and its editor, blaming the newspaper for a host of “wrongdoings”.

Iivula-Ithana, who is also the Secretary General of Swapo, was addressing a Swapo Party rally at Omungwelume in northern Namibia.

She claimed that The Namibian is a bad newspaper, reporting only on negative things like crimes, baby dumping and court cases, and never on positive things that are happening in the country.

Iivula-Ithana claimed that if there was to be war in Namibia, it will be because of The Namibian and its editor, Gwen Lister, who is a white person and always writes bad things, especially about founding President Sam Nujoma when he attacks white people.
“I think people do not understand Sam Nujoma, when he addresses things like the history of the liberation struggle and of Namibia as a whole,” she said.

“I can tell you that you still have white people here in Namibia who still see the black people as their baboons. Do you think we do not see you? The Germans have killed Namibians, the Otjiherero-speaking Namibians in thousands and minimised their number totally. There are human skeletons at the coast of Lüderitz, of our people who have been killed. White people must not think we have forgotten,” she said.

“Gwen Lister must know she is a white person, and if she continues to write bad and negative things about Swapo leaders and other Namibians, we will take her to task for the wrongdoings committed by her fathers, mothers, grandfathers and her grandmothers. She must not forget that she is a white person,” Iivula-Ithana said

“Oswald Shivute, who is working for The Namibian newspaper is here. Go and tell Gwen Lister about that. If she is not going to change her behaviour,” she added, saying she is ready “to face” Gwen Lister any time.

She claimed that Lister, who does not belong to any political party, is a member of RDP.

“[But] if she wants her newspaper to be a people’s paper, then she has to change her behaviour of writing, [and] change those SMSes in her newspaper, because they are confusing people,” she charged.

Iivula-Ithana claimed that the front page of The Namibian is always full of negative stories, while people say bad things about Swapo leaders on the SMS pages.

The Namibian is sending a bad image of Namibia into the world and must stop doing so, the Minister warned.

its never good if the newsmaker becomes the news so i don't agree with the racism stuff ithana says but maybe the namibian is too negative?

Nujoma & Ithana should be strongly censored for their racist remarks, inciting hatred in one of the few relatively stable African countries.

But what can one expect, if you take a bunch of people that 20 years ago were still running around in the bush playing Terrorist, and then suddenly give them "Independence", a country to run and not expect self - enrichment, political hatred, violence, corruption, incompetence etc.

The whole Swapo elite should be ......