As a political youth leader and young man I feel that we are failing to tackle and address real issues that affects young people at large – especially those that are apolitical and into other activities. My main concern is the fact that in many instances we find ourselves only focusing on assisting young black people to lay business foundation(s) and forget about what these young upcoming business talents are facing.
This specific thought focuses on the well-known unlevelled playing-ground and discrimination in the business market / whether it is in Retail, Consultancy, Construction and many other business areas. I am talking about our business opportunities being offered, grabbed and taken into the hands of some outsiders (agents of imperialism). Our young business people everyday are growing with discontent because they are fighting to make ends meet to compete against their white foreign competitors that have gone to the extent of race discrimination.
It is very disheartening to see how foreign white rich people come to our beautiful country and get a “Black Kaffir” to secure business opportunities at the expense of our young inhabitant people – at some point, even our national senior political leaders are aware of the circumstances around the shady business interests of those agents of imperialism, but yet they turn a blind eye and just let it pass. Truly, efforts to afford the young black child the business platforms have been provided through Small and Medium Enterprises and easier financial access to enable us to get into business – since the current 21st Century world is “Economic - centred”.
We find that many young people would want to take up bigger business challenges and expand but the tenders and the contracts are fished out by the foreign owned business ventures and I call for the regulation of this shattering tendency. Institutions such as the National Youth Council of Namibia ought to address this matter with the seriousness it deserves, in the same manner that we hold our Annual National Political Youth Forum, we must also have our Annual Youth in Business Forum whereby our young business people from the black and less privileged background come together and raise issues of their concerns and then we take them up in our capacities at Youth Council level.
The Youth Council will be the right vehicle to drive these issues and the appropriate body to deliver the plea to the Highest office in the country – Office of the President. If we ignore this responsibility as youth leaders with an obligation to the young people then I do not see the purpose of having youth leadership in existence, the current growing trend of white foreigners coming and buying business in our country through our opportunistic black people is going to haunt us 20 years from now as we will have become a total Economic colony of the Capitalist moguls. Your opinion...
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