A Country And Its Capital Newspaper Must Have World Class Aspirations

Everybody who wants to advertise his interests or business has to pay good money for the advertisement. But stop- there is one special person who doesn’t only get it for free – he is actually been paid for it! Who’s that? It is our popular columnist Alfredo T Hengari. His last column (22.July) is from the first line on all about Alfredo, Alfredo. He writes an advertisement about his exceptional life and traveling just for the purpose to inflict the impression of how important he thinks Alfredo is.

In his used style he hammers out a headline (he must have special software “Brilliant Titles” for this task):”A Country And Its Capital City Must Have World Class Aspirations”, which doesn’t have anything to do with the column (at least he didn’t mention it). With this column he reached the until present the apex of triviality. This would be adequate at a personal fan-page of a pop starlet in the internet. But it doesn’t have anything to do with Namibia or Windhoek. Already the comparison of Paris and Windhoek is absurd, it doesn’t make sense. As well as you cannot compare our Starline Express with the TGV. This kind of gushing is ether misuse of a public position or it borders on corruption. In both cases it is not in accordance with the standards of the Namibian. Alfredo’s column should be moved to the classified department with the new tile: A totally underestimated public intellectual looks for admirers to bolster his lesioned self-confidence. And he should pay for it.

Jochen Becker