Oil discovery a blessing or a curse?

Julia Heita Mines and Energy Minister, Tom Alweendo said the answer to the question about whether or not the oil discovery is a blessing or a curse depends on what Namibia decides in the present. “The impact will be what we decide it to be,” Alweendo said. He was addressing a Parliamentary workshop on Maximizing mining and energy potentials, held in Swakopmund on yesterday. “We know of countries where the discovery of oil became a curse and there are also countries where the discovery became a blessing. I would like to believe that we all want our discovery to be…