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63 – 2021 FOURTH SESSION, SEVENTH PARLIAMENT REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA ORDER PAPER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WEDNESDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2021 (14:30 – 17:45) NOTICES OF MOTIONS: I.

Minister of Finance: That leave be given to introduce a Bill to amend the Appropriation Act, 2021 so as to increase and decrease certain amounts of money in the Schedule to that Act to meet the financial requirements of the State during the remainder of the financial year ending 31 March 2022.

II.
II.

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security: That this Assembly – Approve the Ratification of the Agreement on the Transfer of Sentenced Offenders or Persons deprived of liberty between the Republic of Namibia and the Republic of Angola.

III.

Deputy Minister of Disability Affairs: That this Assembly – Agree to the Ratification of Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Africa.

IV.
IV.

Ms. Mootu: That this Assembly – Discusses on investment opportunities, possibilities and viabilities in the context of Neckartal Dam in the Berseba Constituency, //Kharas region.
The Neckartal Dam was filled to its capacity during this year’s rainy season which presents an opportunity for both the central government and regional government to jointly plan for the attraction of investment for the immediate surrounding of the dam, as well as seize the opportunities in tourism, agriculture, leisure and hospitality that exist.

This requires an open minded policy approach to maximize opportunities for both local communities and the country at large.
Finally, that this House considers calling for an investment conference in this regard.

V. Mr. Seibeb: That this Assembly – Discusses the settlement of the landless indigenous Hai//om people at Farm Duwib and Abeganab in order to restore their dignity.
Hai//om people were robbed of their ancestral land during the height of land dispossession, which accelerated immediately after 1904 – 1908 Genocide, as well as during apartheid South Africa’s regime, and further since 1990, after independence, due to elite capture of land and land grabbing.

VI.

Mr. Mukwilongo: That this Assembly – Discusses the Free Market Policy in Namibia.
As much as we want to protect our local business people and ensure economic growth, we have to empower our people and to protect the business industries for it not to fall in the hands of the foreigners.

As a country, businesses that Namibians can do need to be safely protected and increasingly train our people to venture into new markets that the country may have interest in.

A country without its own local people elevated business wise is not a country.
Therefore, this House needs to discuss urgently the policy that is depriving local business people, to operate free and undisturbed by the foreigners.

Chinese and Indian nationals who are taking up opportunities that would solely belong to Namibians, namely the retail are merely a disaster to this nation.

Chinese who is a manufacture, is also selling in wholesale and continued to frustrate the market on a retail.

That this Motion be referred to the relevant Parliamentary Committee.

VII.
VII.

Ms. Mootu: Shall move a Motion on the Integrated Youth Development Strategy in this august House with an expressed aim to harness political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal instruments that exists to eradicate the daily struggles that Namibian youth are faced with.
The youth are the largest segment of the population that are faced, with triple challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment, to which 31 years of state responses to this conundrum have been inadequate, and misplaced.

Thus, the youth of Namibia are intentionally exposed to poverty and unemployment, worse than ever before.

VIII.

Dr. Iijambo: That this Assembly – Discusses and debates the retirement age(s) of Academics at our Universities.

IX.
IX.

Ms. Hengari: The constrained access to higher education continues to suppress the country’s ability to produce the requisite human capital needed to improve the country’s competitiveness.

Therefore, that this Assembly – Debates the removal of structural and systematic barriers that block access to higher education so that every Namibian person, irrespective of their socio-economic background may be able to pursue higher education.

X.
X.

Deputy Minister of Health and Social Services: That this Assembly – Discusses representation and participation of women in politics in Namibia; whether women are equally represented at all levels as their menfolk and if not, for this House to come up and adopt a solution to it.

(23 February 2021).

XI.


Mr. Smit: In light of what must be considered a national disaster, considering the fact that the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Child Welfare has over the past 31 years completely failed to successfully address any of its mandates, most especially the welfare and safety of our most vulnerable citizens, namely our children in their homes as well as at school.
That this august House – Urgently discusses how the terrible things that are happening to children in our society can be stopped and redressed and whether this Ministry should be scrapped and its duties allocated elsewhere.

That this Motion be referred to a relevant Parliamentary Standing Committee for investigation and report back to this august House.

XII.
XII.

Deputy Minister of Health and Social Services: The events of colonisation on the African continent and Namibia in particular are documented since the days of the first European settlers.

Much of our history is written from the perspective of the colonisers while the viewpoints and experiences of the Africans is largely ignored.
It was concluded that at independence, perhaps with the excitement and euphoria that prevailed, both the government and the people thought that the new dispensation was going to bring about the healing of wounds and help us all move on.

We were all wrong and the truth is quite evident in the communities and amongst the descendants of the victims of the 1904 – 1908 Ovaherero and Nama Genocide.
To the contrary, GRN established a Ministry of Veterans’ Affairs which deals with matters of those who were involved in the 1966-1990 war of liberation which was fought by all Namibians including the descendants of the victims of the 1904-08 Ovaherero and Nama Genocide even those who were born in the Diaspora.

At this juncture in our lives, it is undeniable that the issue of genocide is not only about reparations and apology.
It is more than that, from healing emotional wounds, re-writing our own history to preserving and sharing memoirs of our ancestors.

This is an issue that will not end with reparations but it has a long way to go, it needs to be tackled head-on to find a direction, develop indulgence and deal with it on a day-to-day basis from an institutional point of view in a strategic way to help, assist and advance the communities that were almost annihilated by the Kaiser’s German imperial regime.
It is therefore, against this background that I shall move: That this Assembly – Discusses and Recommends that an Office, Agency or the Commissioner for Descendants of the Victims of the Ovaherero and Nama 1904-08 Genocide be established for humanistic and historical reasons.

This is best practice globally, with examples of the Azrieli Foundation in Canada, Shoah Foundations in most countries and the Holocaust Antisemitism Foundation in New Zealand.

XIII.
XIII.

Mr. Mukwilongo: That this Assembly – Discusses the unattended Government cars parked at the Government Garage and also on Government premises country-wide.

That this Motion be referred to a Parliamentary Standing Committee for further scrutiny and report back to this Assembly.

XIV.

Mr. Kavekotora: That this Assembly – Discusses fake qualifications in the public sector in an effort to improve service delivery and provide opportunities to those with real qualifications to enter the job market.
That this Motion subsequently be referred to a relevant Parliamentary Committee for further investigation and to engage competent institutions to assist when necessary.

XV.

Mr. Kavekotora: That this Assembly – Discusses and interrogates issues that led to the devastating strike at NBC and its subsequent implications.

That this Motion eventually be referred to a relevant Parliamentary Committee for further investigation.

XVI.
XVI.

Mr. Mukwilongo: That this Assembly – Discusses the hygiene in and around our State hospitals and also the position of superintendent occupied by foreigners who operate private clinical centre.

That this Motion be referred to a relevant Standing Committee.

ORDERS OF THE DAY: I. II.

Resumption of Debate on youth unemployment in the country which is more than twice than that for adults – [Mr. Venaani].
Resumption of Consideration of a Policy framework of Namibia Arts, Culture and Heritage – [Mr. Martin].

III.

Resumption of Consideration of the Charter for African Cultural Renaissance – [Deputy Minister of Finance].

IV.

Resumption of Debate on the draft Joint Declaration between the Republic of Namibia and the Federal Republic of Germany – [Mr. Muharukua].
V. Resumption of Debate on the Prohibition of Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and their Destruction – [Mr. Seibeb].

VI.

Resumption of Debate on events that led to the suspension of senior managers at NHE – [Minister of Urban and Rural Development].

VII.

Resumption of Debate on the Demarcation of Nossobville Suburb from Kalahari Constituency to Gobabis Constituency – Omaheke Region – [Minister of Urban and Rural Development].

VIII.
VIII.

Resumption of Debate on the preferential treatment awarded to the former Executive Director of the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation – [Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation].
________________________________ THURSDAY, 4 NOVEMBER 2021 NOTICE OF A MOTION: Minister of Finance: That leave be given to amend the State Finance Act, 1991, so as to substitute certain definitions; to remove references in the Act to the signing of securities and issuing of certificates or other documentary evidence in respect of internal registered stock; and to provide for incidental matters.

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