Rights of the Khoesan

|ABA ?KHOAB SKRYF:The nations of the world, our leaders, and all of us as Africans in general and Namibians in particular, turned our cold backs on and dismally failed the aboriginal Khoesan of Africa, carriers of the oldest known human mitochondrial DNA, as their indigenous status is not yet officially recognized.This denialist stance against these vulnerable Sub-Saharan marginalized minorities started with historical invaders of their ancestral lands who have always been employing all kinds of systematic strategies to smartly and deceitfully undermine, sabotage and break the indigenous Khoesan in a myriad of ways.Migrant invaders, out of fear, passed their brutal baton of hatred on from generation to generation, all the way to our national leaders of African countries, such that even those in the highest political, legal and economic echelons, distort, circumvent and hide historical and scientific truth and facts about the Khoesan, because of a fear of losing their stronghold on these first peoples and their resources.Examples of such methodical exclusion include refusing to acknowledge the establishment of politico-cultural borders during Bantu invasions during which colonialism commenced, long before the Berlin Conference of 1884-85; refusing to recognize the umbrella identity, Khoesan, in their quest for self-determination; deliberate omission of the ancient and extinct pre-historic Sangoan, forbearers of the indigenous Khoesan of Africa, as well as the indigenous Khoekhoen from historical records in certain cases; targeted wrongful and devious accordance of aboriginal status to non-Khoesanoid immigrants; and denying the indigenous lineage and status of mixed Khoesanoid families such as Coloureds, Basters and Griqua.But the ultimate injustice is the ongoing methodical and ill-intended estrangement of ancestral land and looting of common resources which legally belong to the aboriginal Khoesan of Africa. This is an ongoing African tragedy.MERE LIP SERVICEOur leaders set the president for citizenry to indignantly disrespect local aborigines and ignore the indigenous Khoesan's condition, quality of life, plight and voice, such that Jacob Zuma, former president of South Africa, during a parliamentary address, failed to cast holistic light on the Satan-inspired disempowerment, suffering, struggle, suppression and disenfranchisement of the aboriginal Khoesan since the first invasions by Asians, the migrating Bantu/Nguni from West Africa and the Great Lakes region, and European discoverers and settlers.Instead, Zuma strategically and cunningly addressed only the short-lived historical suffering of his own people under the dictatorship of white Apartheid and supremacy, much like other former African presidents like Sam Nujoma, Robert Mugabe, Kenneth Kaunda and Seretse Khama.In 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa went as far as visiting unsuspecting ouma Katrina Esau, the last of a few N|uu speakers in South Africa and recipient of the 2014 National Order of the Baobab for her work in heritage preservation, and ceased her irreplaceable N|uu journal, regarded as an international heritage relic, under false pretenses, according to San sources based in South Africa.The late, legendary world icon, Nelson Mandela, although he established the National Khoesan Council and featured the indigenous Khoesan on the national coat of arms of South Africa, turned a blind eye to the tears, blood and sweat of the Khoesanoid aborigines. The widespread impact thereof is catastrophically vast and far-reaching.SADC leaders exert a powerful manipulative stronghold over the traditional leaders of the aboriginal Khoesan who sell their very own to the highest bidders.The indigenous people of Sub-Sahara are morosely tired and stand with their backs against the wall.CHANGE WILL COMEGod is angry. He is tired of this relentless undignified brutality against an orphaned indigenous people who cannot defend themselves against powerful tyrannical forces, systems and machines designed to silence, manipulate, subjugate, destroy and hide them from the gaze of the international eye.His righteous anger and judgement is coming down on all guilty parties. Foundations are about to get shaken and their walls crack and crumble as the entire liberating, restorative and justice-delivering truth about the aboriginal Khoesan of Africa is screamed from the rooftops of the world.In the post-independence African context thus far, the only thing that mattered to ruling and opposition parties and migrant citizens, was the political and economic support, gain and exploitation of Khoesan indigenous populations for their own benefit, with no or scant returns for their loyalty.African governments must start to make amends and restore the dignity of these deeply humiliated peoples by prioritizing legislation and policies as well as ratify and/or implement international conventions on the recognition and honouring of indigenous peoples’ rights in order to empower, compensate and protect the aboriginal Khoesan of Africa. Their very lives and survival depend on it.

Rights of the Khoesan

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