Humour – A Natural Resource

IN Namibia we are blessed with so many natural resources, but there is another one which is not often appreciated – a rich vein of (usually unintended) humour.

Scan the pages of any newspaper and you will see. For instance, the news that a team of six Zimbabwean government officials seconded to Namibia, presumably at our expense, is to advise on land redistribution.Right – employing Zimbabwean official consultants for land redistribution is a bit like taking lessons in navigation from the captain of the Titanic.What a pity there are no satirists and cartoonists in Namibia to take advantage of this resource! Satirists in South Africa, for instance, where our father of the nation has regularly cornered the title of Mampoer of the Week, are not so reticent.And the best sit-com scriptwriters in the world, if they knew, would fight tooth and nail for the rights to the Board meeting minutes of the Roads Authority.On a much darker note, there is the news that cancer patients will go untreated (no funds to fix the machine) while another 70 million is allocated (just for this year of course) to the new State House – this not to include the gold taps and the cost of evicting the middle-class ‘peasants’ of the surrounding area.Namibia’s own financial Iraq?Humorous WindhoekNote: Name and address supplied – Ed.For instance, the news that a team of six Zimbabwean government officials seconded to Namibia, presumably at our expense, is to advise on land redistribution.Right – employing Zimbabwean official consultants for land redistribution is a bit like taking lessons in navigation from the captain of the Titanic.What a pity there are no satirists and cartoonists in Namibia to take advantage of this resource! Satirists in South Africa, for instance, where our father of the nation has regularly cornered the title of Mampoer of the Week, are not so reticent.And the best sit-com scriptwriters in the world, if they knew, would fight tooth and nail for the rights to the Board meeting minutes of the Roads Authority.On a much darker note, there is the news that cancer patients will go untreated (no funds to fix the machine) while another 70 million is allocated (just for this year of course) to the new State House – this not to include the gold taps and the cost of evicting the middle-class ‘peasants’ of the surrounding area.Namibia’s own financial Iraq?Humorous WindhoekNote: Name and address supplied – Ed.