Africa

08 Dec

Africa, the old horse of capitalist exploitation that Namibia seems to be learning little from

ObserverOpinionsAfrica

Is Namibia destined to forever keep experimenting before her wretched of the earth eventually start to test the fruits of her independence? Yours Truly Ideologically cannot but pose this pertinent question and muse about it. In view of the latest experiment in Green Hydrogen. Which for now, more than anything else, is just another experiment like many others before it. Most of which till this day have proven nothing but experiments, if not products of the wishful thinking of their presumed masterminds. From the beginning with the independence of the country, there are hardly, if any projects intended to meaningfully…

SADC MPs want value from region’s vast resources

ObserverObserver MoneyAfrica, Members of Parliament, SADC Parliamentary Forum

Moses Magadza WINDHOEK – Africa is the richest continent on earth in terms of extractive resources, but until Members of Parliament up their game and demand meaningfully beneficial deals, their citizens will continue to wallow in abject poverty. Parliamentarians who represent their countries on the SADC Parliamentary Forum’s Standing Committee on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources, came to this conclusion when they held a virtual meeting last week. South African lawmaker Tshitereke Baldwin Matibe chaired the meeting. The continent is awash with massive deposits of extractive resources that include iron ore, petroleum and natural gas, crude oil, diamonds, gold, uranium,…