Appeal from Hewat Beukes of the Windhoek Namibian Workers Advice Centre
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We forward the court documents of the Tsumeb community with annexures that explain in a fair amount of detail the social, political, and economic relations that still prevail in Tsumeb, a northern mining town in Namibia.
It is in fact a window into what the Namibian people received after more than a century-long bloody struggle for self-determination. What they eventually received was an amalgam of imperialism, colonial, and tribal forms of human abuse and savagery. Tsumeb is Namibia.
The Namibian working class has no choice but to fight for survival or to perish in the cesspits that the colonists create with renewed and absolute self-confidence.
The Tsumeb community has risen in indignation at the disregard for their rights and dignity, including blatant racism.
Monday, 29 August 2022, a contingency of police from Omuthiya that had no jurisdiction in Tsumeb pushed the Tsumeb police aside and shed the blood of leaders of the Old TCL Hostel community of 3500 men, women and children.
This morning they returned to continue their assault. Many families have been cast out in the sewers and streets surrounding the hostel.
This happened while the dispute around the ownership of the hostel, the putrid conditions in which people are forced to live, the fraudulent orders of court, and the openly forged warrants of eviction, are pending in the Supreme Court of Namibia.
All this is illegal in terms of the rent laws, health and safety laws, building laws, and township laws. But, the thieves and parasites have entered paradise in 1990. The colonists have come from paradise into paradise. This time paradise has no constraints.
We ask support from all who can give. We need legal support, that is lawyers who may be willing to represent them in court, support in international monitoring of the case for historical and political purposes. We need to publish
the case as widely as possible to dispel the imperialist promotion of utter corruption, social degradation, and crimes against the Namibian People as democracy, transparency and accountability.
The working people of this country will fight, but they need to have the imperialist veil of suppression of the truth lifted.
We ask our friends to start with messages to the Concerned Group of Tsumeb representing the community: claasenlisken54@gmail.com, Lisken Claasen, Chairlady.
We need your letters of protest to The President of Namibia, emolelekeng@op.gov.na; The Minister of Justice, minister@jud.gov.na; Municipal Council of Tsumeb, hangulamathews@gmail.com .
To those who dislike reading legal text, read annexure TA1 Parts 1 and 2. We thank you in anticipation and solidarity,