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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>Landless People\u2019s Movement (LPM) leader Bernadus Swartbooi says the history Namibian children are taught at school is only from Swapo\u2019s perspective.<\/b><\/p>\n

This has led to many young people growing up with a limited awareness of both Namibian politics and history.<\/p>\n

Swartbooi said this in an interview with Hennok TV on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur young children are not receiving the education they need for liberation. They are not getting the information for empowerment, self-reflection and building a sense of pride about our society.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a selective history of the nation, including some oral history and a narrative that suits Swapo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t read those books, you will find this leads to an incomplete understanding of history,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Swartbooi has in past media reports called Namibia\u2019s education system outdated.<\/p>\n

Although the apartheid education system was flawed, there was a collective societal effort to raise awareness of the common enemy and issues of justice, fairness and freedom, he said. \u201cIf you didn\u2019t get anything at school, you would get it outside. School is supposed to build your consciousness and your ability to be a critical, self-reflective person.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is not done in the current school curriculum or set-up. In society, many people are compromised,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Swartbooi said the LPM has started challenging these narratives quite successfully, arguing that some of the heroes celebrated by Swapo were not necessarily exemplary leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the LPM, we began to challenge those narratives quite successfully by pointing out that some of the heroes you are celebrating were actually not very good leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of them were just 19 years old and projecting them as so powerful is questionable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe offered a narrative about our history and the common human contributions from all sectors of society, which allowed others to start to questioning, saying Swapo is not as glorious as people have proclaimed,\u201d he said.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2018UNGRATEFUL\u2019<\/p>\n

Responding to Swartbooi\u2019s allegations, Charles Mubita, Swapo\u2019s deputy secretary for information and mobilisation, said the LPM leader is being ungrateful because he learned politics from Swapo.<\/p>\n

\u201cSwapo cannot legitimise or give credit to what he said, because Swartbooi himself was once a young person and he learned about history and politics from Swapo.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe should be grateful to learn from Swapo. He is ungrateful \u2013 his political career started with Swapo, so he is hypocritical.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Namibia. Landless People\u2019s Movement (LPM) leader Bernadus Swartbooi says the history Namibian children are taught at school is only from Swapo\u2019s perspective. This has led to many young people growing up with a limited awareness of both Namibian politics and history. 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