{"id":100161,"date":"2026-03-22T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/affirmative-repositioning-calls-independence-incomplete-project"},"modified":"2026-03-22T14:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T14:49:16","slug":"affirmative-repositioning-calls-independence-incomplete-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/affirmative-repositioning-calls-independence-incomplete-project","title":{"rendered":"Affirmative Repositioning Calls Independence Incomplete Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Nishi Felton<\/b><\/p>\n

Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>The Affirmative Repositioning (AR) party has called independence an \u201cincomplete project,\u201d given the rates of poverty, inequality and unemployment in the country.<\/b><\/p>\n

In the AR\u2019s Independence Day message issued on Saturday, member of parliament Job Amupanda said the years since 1990 have been decades of contradictions.<\/p>\n

While there has been significant progress over the past 36 years, Amupanda called that progress \u201ca mere drop in the ocean\u201d.<\/p>\n

Amupanda stated the mission of his party as: \u201cto complete the incomplete project of liberation and to steer our nation onto an alternative path that resolves the contradictions of the past 36 years.<\/p>\n

He said the new society that should have emerged after independence was marred by freedom fighters compromising with former colonisers.<\/p>\n

\u201cPost-independence Namibia evolved into a nation of two conflicting facets. On one side, the victorious freedom fighters entered the comfortable corridors of political power. On the other side, the former colonisers secured a deal in which they surrendered only the political institutions in exchange for retaining control over the economic ones,\u201d Amupanda said.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Amupanda congratulated Namibia on its 36 years of independence and wished all Namibians a happy and reflective Independence Day.<\/p>\n

In an age of information overload, Sunrise is The Namibian\u2019s morning briefing, delivered at 6h00 from Monday<\/p>\n

Source: The Namibian<\/b><\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Namibia<\/span> Follow Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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