the late Chief the paramon chif O'Hara
he said that went once he died his bull
must be put here the German community
here they make an objection and then
they do move that horns because they say
that it's smelling that smelling it's
not nice melon but them them those rich
people they say the Germans they say no
that thing is smelling in my school it's
racist it's racism it's racism
the injustice is faced by namibians
today are inseparable from the country's
past its most gaping open wound is what
has been dubbed the first genocide of
the 20th century in 1904 German
colonizers attempt to wipe out the
Herero and nama ethnic groups massacring
up to a hundred and ten thousand people
so we've just walked through the German
cemetery there which is very well tended
and looked after and just after it here
behind me you can see all these mounds
which are the mark the graves of victims
of the genocide and then over in that
direction you have the German
communities houses which have slowly
been encroaching essentially they've
been building over their graves and then
finally you have this memorial sponsored
by the German government which quite
incredibly says that the people who
perish to perish under mysterious
circumstances
I mean adding insult to injury is really
an understatement here prominent Nazis
such as Ritter phone app and eigen
Fisher were involved in the atrocities
in Namibia phone app is considered by
many to be the ideological godfather of
the early Nazi Party and Ogun Fischer
was a pioneering eugenicist whose ideas
inspired Hitler
he experimented on the decapitated heads
of the Herero and nama people to try to
justify his theory of white supremacy
both fun app and Fisher were proponents
of the theory of Laban zarm
or living space that was central to Nazi
ideology a theory that justified land
grabbing for the white race and so
historians say it was the genocide in
Namibia that laid the blueprint for the
European Holocaust now they want to take
back their land but if you even if you
go to some of the farms there they are
still having hero names they are still
having nama names but those farms are
still been owned by the Germans the
children of a German settlers while
Germany continues to struggle with
atoning for the Holocaust its officials
are still refusing to recognize German
crimes committed against the Herero and
nama people as genocide meanwhile a
younger generation is growing impatient
eager to finish what the leaders of the
anti colonial liberation struggle
started when they want independence from
apartheid South Africa newer
organizations like the affirmative
repositioning group led by job an panda
are being formed to increase the
pressure for land expropriation from
whites without compensation so the
project of liberation of independence in
the fight for freedom was therefore
bring about a new politics of
emancipation that penetrated in half of
society so the major contradiction was
that the most of the problem that we
face in post-colonial societies is that
the independence is really an incomplete
project Namibia's independence had
strings attached apartheid South Africa
only agreed to leave on the condition
that private property would be protected
the result was that millions of hectares
of land would remain in the hands of the
white population the biggest sell out
has been the neoliberal Constitution
that was adopted it was an
outward-looking Constitution that
ignores the history and suffering of our
people if you want to avoid a
neo-colonial scenario you must pay as
much attention
to economic liberation as you need to
pay to political liberation and neither
we did it in order ANC in South Africa
the political leadership of the former
liberation movement now ruling party
increasingly got comfortable with
corporate power and with business elites
the government led by the South West
African people's organization or SWAPO
which fought alongside anti-apartheid
forces like the ANC of Nelson Mandela
has since repeatedly made promises of
land reform but Bernard s swap boy who
was once the deputy minister of land
says Namibians again fed up of
unfulfilled promises now he heads the
landless people's movement we are for
failed a southern African leadership we
have a failed former liberation movement
leadership and young people are rising
to the occasion to say it's enough you
are too old go home we will take charge
of things now and many people are
hearing this message and they are
following in April 2017 as part of an
empowerment plan meant to reduce
inequality the Namibian government
promised to introduce a bill that would
make it mandatory for all Namibian
businesses to be at least 25% black
owned foreign investors lobby groups and
white land owners were up in arms about
the policy the government soon
backtracked ditching the clause and many
of the more radical parts of the plan
you know when in zebrova new Gama was
running the country down and he was
praised by the politically leaders here
then you also would say is it going to
come here as well but they didn't you
know politics is an interesting thing
you know you talk here and what you do
at the bottom is different for me
sometimes I want that this Jaime do
probably think these politicians are
going to remain like that forever if I
was them I would even just organize
among ourselves get bad guys this
situation is not going to be like that
forever
well why ownership plan never changed
here after German and South African
colonization
ended since the country's independence
then you may be in leadership itself has
ever seen the sell-off of the country's
resources like water to Europeans when
you look at the migrant situation where
so many Africans are moving from African
countries to Europe in search of a
better life it's a shame that a
continent that is as rich as Africa
today is as a migrant problem while the
very countries they run to for a better
life
other countries whose companies are
making the largest profits in this
continent what a contradiction as well
as land water the most vital resource to
sustain life is a luxury that up to
one-third of Namibians
and draw a daily struggle to access the
country's supply is largely run by an
international consortium made up of
Germany based Berlin water international
and French multinational Veolia the
world's largest supplier of water
services for many black Namibians it's
expensive and they have to pay in
advance for water that often doesn't
even come out of the taps walking
templates are amber runabout I think for
for for so many thousands are sharing
for tips you see here zero zero but if
you put in it must register the amount
but now it wrote here era some of the
people are going there at the graveyard
they are going to steal what are they
and that that water is not healthy water
the water is coming from the sewage dump
i send my son last last are ready to go
fetch water in winds eight o clock comes
back home by 12 because you
we drilled here and this supplies water
here for the workers and for the main
house and the this never this is always
water as always water especially at the
house is very strong water in the DRC we
met with Josiah and POUM way who invited
us into their home a small Shack made
out of scrap where they live with eight
other members of their family the memory
of what German occupiers did to their
ancestors still haunts them the Germans
came all the whites came to took all the
men out understand so they were put on a
ship and this ship went into the oceans
and then they disappeared I mean there
was a blast
boom like that and that mean everything
big it doesn't seem fair to me that
descendants of people that did that to
your family are you still essentially
living in luxury and me living in this
human I say yeah yes you can see for
yourself you see for yourself all these
you know if you were me you would also
feel the same maybe they have to pace
for us for us to have a better living as
I said earlier we as the desert of those
who died in that in that in that in that
ship so what's the solution
they must be solution or maybe we I
don't know but there must be a solution
for it
because they can just just just like
that there must be a solution
there must be a solution black people
are the majority in this country they
are the majority in whatever method if
they decide to occupy the land they are
going to decide to occupy there is
nothing that a minority can do will take
law in our own hands that's what I will
do anything they can take me and go and
lock me up I will take it in my own
hands that's what I'm gonna do
the white men might have left but the
legacies of white men remains it remains
in the imagination of self of the black
people it remains in the institutions of
power it remains in the education system
young leaders like an panda pairing gada
and swap boy talk tough they say that
the inequality that colonialism brought
to Namibia is impossible to end without
radical change amongst the black
population and confrontation with the
white there is no achievement that they
came through you know some liberal roses
and flowers we anticipate there's going
to be opposition and antagonism - a
struggle blood was shed for us to get
independence today violence is
inevitable
for me violence is inevitable what
happens when dialogue fail in Europe you
will see a white man in driving a bus
fixing something or building a house
here
white people blacks will work for them
he receives the money that's the
thinking that has fossilised in the
white man's mind blacks are weak they
are afraid of us we can do whatever we
want with them
and their leaders are also afraid of us
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