(MISA/IFEX) – On 4 November 2000, the leader of the ruling South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) Youth League, Paulus Kapia, hit out harshly against “The Namibian” newspaper and gave notice that the youth wing was planning an all-out assault on the newspaper. Quoted in “The Namibian”, Kapia, who was speaking at a Youth League […]
(MISA/IFEX) – On 4 November 2000, the leader of the ruling South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) Youth League, Paulus Kapia, hit out harshly against “The Namibian” newspaper and gave notice that the youth wing was planning an all-out assault on the newspaper.
Quoted in “The Namibian”, Kapia, who was speaking at a Youth League meeting at Oshikati in the north of the country, labelled the newspaper “reactionary” and accused it of destroying “the good image of our SWAPO government.” “We have to put a stop [to people] reading it,” Kapia said.
“Let us stop buying ‘The Namibian’. We will come up with the deadline when we will ask you not to buy and read ‘The Namibian’, maybe next year … we must buy and read our [SWAPO’s] newspaper, ‘Namibia Today’.
“I want to make a call today from here to all SWAPO ministers, permanent secretaries and to all directors to stop advertising in ‘The Namibian’ as from Monday [November 6, 2000].
“I tell you, if we see from now on that something from the SWAPO government has been advertised in ‘The Namibian’, no matter from which ministry, that minister must resign. We will call on the president that that minister should resign,” Kapia said.
