Strugle Kids

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And ya!! This should be my first post of the year. So the first thing on my mind is the whole “struggle kids” issue.  To those not aware who the struggle kids are; To my understanding it’s a group of ADULTS calling themselves children of the struggle who were born and raised in exile and are now squatting in Windhoek. I first heard about them, when they made headlines that they are walking all the way from  Outapi 800km to Windhoek to petition the Prime minister.

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Now the current situation is that they have been camping in Tura near the swapo head office, and get evicted like every day, the latest incident is when they went head to head with the cops when they decide to march to the Prime minister’s office. They  are demanding jobs and other entitlements from the Swapo lead government. What comes to mind is that clearly they want free jobs handed down on a silver platter, or are they pawns in a political game.

I know for a fact that they are government programs and legislation that can cater for their needs mainly the Veterans act of 2008, Land tenure act as well as government grants for orphans and children under 18. So basically if government want to solve this issue they can easily deploy a task  force from lets say the ministry of Gender and social welfare register them collect data and conduct a baseline study to determine what instruments the government can use to solve this issue.

On the other had one may ask why they so special? Children from exile have been branded as lazy and have been given special treatment after independence already and they wasted those opportunities. But as for me I just wonder how they been surviving  this whole time in Windhoek, because if you go where they camp you can see litter, meaning they are consuming food, where they get this money??? and its sad now that most of their stuff is under police custody, and tabloid reports suggest that the police denied some of the access to their ARV medication.