in United States is black/white problem
like you've got any and I'd say if you
have got Noah in the Muslim countries
where no where the aliens say the the
Abrahamic countries say castrated islets
that's why this program can never come
here
there's no no no race conflict in that
sense because they couldn't don't
misunderstand agreed we will have to
invade it's coming the way we see it
it's coming as just a fence separates
them from owning or from using that
grass and the way they are looking at
white people these days the lights
themselves are saying the eyes are
saying time is up parmesan
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Yohann is a descendant of one of the
roughly 30,000 Germans that stayed in
Namibia after German colonization ended
in 1915 this white population live in
enclaves of relative luxury fencing out
the majority black population from land
they claim is days so am I suddenly just
because of my color then as the reverse
racism and I'm not a Namibian you know I
mean where do you want to start you were
to say all the white peoples are not
Africans yeah but we we my grandfather's
came here in nineteen for and my mother
was born here really a few totally in a
million so odd to me I'm an iminium he
feels Namibian but Germans here are
sealed off for most Namibian socially
and despite having been here for
generations they usually don't speak any
of the indigenous languages if I meet a
young guy here on the farm I talked to
him English because I knew ahead English
it's cool if I talk to older guy no they
could not be a greater contrast between
whites here who own up to 50% of
agricultural land but they make up less
than 1% of the population they enjoy one
of the highest standards of living in
the world but despite gaining
independence from apartheid South Africa
in 1990 the majority of black namibians
remain amongst the poorest at many
traffic lights in the capital vind Hoke
groups of young people wait in the
roadside in the hope of getting picked
up to do odd jobs often for white
patrons and little pay we are looking
for jobs
working in removing glasses they secure
every day every morning you Iook up four
o'clock you spend them in before days
without anybody without picking on you
you spend the whole the whole week life
is not easy it's not easy it's truly a
country in which people can very easily
live in different world and that is
because the apartheid design of society
not only spatial but also socially kind
of prepared for that you have our cities
you look at towns how they are divided
its classical apartheid stuff on the
edges of every big city in Namibia you
have these sprawling townships where
people are living with limited access to
water limited sanitation no flushing
toilets and barely any electricity and
this is where you really feel that so
much of the population of Namibia are
living just in the shadows workers on
the other end of town they only
encounter white people as bosses
essentially as supervisors or managers
socially the the old apartheid structure
is replicating itself and we're sitting
here now 28 years after independence
outside of swakopmund a city described
as a little Germany in the desert lies
the vast shantytown named the Democratic
resettlement community known as the DRC
hunger here is an urgent problem some of
the people kids they to subhuman plus
senders and when they went to cook it
they had a damn sight human placenta
watch is coming from the hospital see
here a lot of kids when you drink this
hiv-positive blood at the dam side kids
was drinking this that's blood
it's blood human blood is coming from
laboratorians for testing people
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poverty and inequality in Namibia are
inextricably linked to land and 44
percent of Namibian soil is commercially
owned that's approximately 39 million
hectares bigger than the whole of
Germany this land is still mostly in the
hands of whites elsewhere in Africa
Zimbabwe is often scorned by the West
for seizing land from white settlers and
in a South Africa still reeling from the
legacy of apartheid calls for radical
change a getting louder here in Namibia
tensions but justice stark if we have to
take over as the best option we're not
going to be interested in saving the
Rhinos and all these funny things that
that happens our number one program is
going to be lent what are we talking in
terms of the land here the farm
size-wise 14,000 acre 14,000 okay and
you know how much is it you know you
most probably people have got a
different understanding for for size
yeah fourteen thousand hectare is like
14,000 soccer fields and then the people
will think oh it's a big farm and so on
yes it is big but if there is no
rainfall you know if I've got a smaller
farm and you don't get the rain on this
small area then you stuck 15,000
football stadium even just to say even
just to say it's not difficult for that
guy it's great that's why we get very
angry and saying that the best solution
is for ultimately for us to occupy those
ones
mostly this firm it's belonging to the
German skies the oneida German from this
side another side like this there are no
it's not normal but because this land
it's brought by the Germans during the
colonial time when they came here so
they protect their things it's why they
started putting friends a lot of
Namibia's commercial land is surrounded
by fences to keep animals in and people
out we visited growing who exist in a
kind of no man's land
it's a triangle has surrounding of
commercial farms in this is a community
of Germans here stick to their own but
once a year they present themselves
during carnival a tradition that hits
Germany every spring the parade is like
a showcase of their community their
spectators the poor black population
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at the German blog the tradition that's
where we all get crazy and live off
brings people together and everyone's
happy go-lucky
come join there's no stress or nothing
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a big round of applause for get you
special is just another example and half
friendly everyone is here and everyone
coming together just to enjoy a few
beers no matter what the politics say no
matter what vices to see the best in
everything right now you need to take
the mickey out of yourself sometimes
whose life is unfair that's what a mile
away from the show of Carnival I asked
your hand why he thinks Namibia is one
of the most unequal societies in the
world
today if you look into society you say
yeah I mean look you say the inequality
offices equality is between between
black and white because the traditional
white family got maybe two kids or three
and the average black family they've got
about six children it's going slowly
down you know slowly but if you if your
population growth rate is higher than
your cone ohmic pros rate then you go
into poverty there's no question about
it what happens in Bob is he threw out
the white farmers Zambia was not
self-sufficient in food production then
they brought the white farmers into
Zambia they knew how to make food
production on large scale farming
methods Ajay just got the skill I don't
know how to explain it but it's simply
effect of the day and knows I'm
sufficient again
this kind of racism goes deep and is
often proudly on show almost 100,000
German tourists visit Namibia each year
and among the souvenirs on sale to them
I was horrified to find Nazi memorabilia
in Germany this would land the sellers
in jail there are a lot here they are a
lot they are not even doing the regime
enjoy carnival they used to parade the
worrying the swastikas and the KKK
outfits and painting black faces
insulting our people and calling us
baboons