I knew that education was my only way out of poverty – so I set myself up with the help of my very good friends and the people who believed in me because of my passion to learn, the spirit to explore beyond my limits – I set out and traveled around the world, going from country to country, learning as much as I could from the best people, the best at what they do.

I didn’t give up simply because there was no way out for me, even when I didn’t have money to pay for my grade school education. I just kept praying (I used to pray 3 times a day, even in classes, I used to pretend that I was going to the bathroom but I would just go and pray), and God heard my prayers.

The only best weapon I had then and even now, was and still my education – that’s all I have up to today – my life skills, my spirit of endurance, perseverance, and my never-give up attitude no matter what I am going through, even when most of the times I didn’t have food to eat, clothes to wear or place to stay, I never gave up on my dream to getting my education.

You too can do it, perhaps education is not your best and God given talent, perhaps there’s something else you can best do other than what someone else is doing already, just focus on what you can do best and make the best of it, and don’t give up on your talent – that’s your dream.

You can do it, just believe, trust, and obey through obedience.

Go out there and make it happen, don’t worry about the loud mouths, just do what you do best – it’s your life, make the best of it, no one can do it for you better than yourself.

May God bless you, may God keep you, and may the good Lord Jesus Christ be with you in all what you try to do.

Just believe, nothing is impossible!

Mr. Mwinga’s figure is completely flaw; wrong, and I strongly disagree with his theory of defining the factors that make up his conclusion of the “unemployed” and “employed” Namibians, and I wouldn’t mind having a deep discussion with him and with other economists in Namibia over this subject.

Overall, he underestimated or overlooked the real factors that make up the “underemployed” and “employed” in Namibia plus other key factors, which if included could bring Namibia’s unemployment rate to as high as 55%.

I’m writing an analytical research article on this subject and I will post it on this blog soon.

Also, in The Namibian newspaper of last Friday, Quana Angula, wrote an article that states that Namibia’s TIPEEG will fail. Yes, I agree with his views, as I’ve also written on this subject when it was first announced, see and read my blog article on this.

Most of the African leaders have received millions of dollars from Libya’s Gaddafi (at one time Gaddafi has also accused or made claims to have given millions of dollars to the French Prime Minister for his re-election campaign and he wanted it back).

That’s why some African leaders have not been vocal publicly to condemn Gaddafi’s accused atrocities for his people, but then again, they are also afraid to publicly show their support for him.

And the West, they have always wanted Libya’s oil but Gaddafi has been a pain in a butt to cooperate with them, so the best option to get access to his oil is to take him out; which they did (and the soonest he’s killed, Libya’s oil started to flow into the world’s market).

Now, domestically, Gaddafi did a decent job for the economy in Libya. He had setup decent infrastructure for his people in his country. And only about 7.2% of the Libyan population lives under US$2 day unlike in many developing countries, especially in Africa. And the unemployment rate in Libya is at 40%, but most of the basic services such as education, healthcare, etc., in Libya were government subsided.

Apart from the alleged inhuman treatment of his people, Gaddafi provided decent basic necessities for his people. But in most countries, you would always have the ”loud mouth” opponents or opposition parties who when they speak, they sound as though they represent the rest of the citizens, just because they somehow feel dissatisfied with their government. It’s like saying that when some Republicans in the US voice their dissatisfied with Obama’s presidency, that when they open their loud mouths, that they speak on behalf of all the Americans, but that’s not how it is and that’s not how it should be. But when these loud mouths get any media attention, then they open their loud mouths as though they are speaking on behalf of everyone else.

Yes, Gaddafi mistreated and torched his people inhumanly, as accused, and I am not condoning his alleged actions, but he also did some good for his country.

So, who’s right to condemn Gaddafi? Depends on who you are and your thinking motive thereof. I believe everyman has and should have an equal access to a fair judicial system. No one is guilty until otherwise proven guilty. And those who commit these heinous killings, like what we have seen today, killing Gaddafi and pulling and kicking his corpse on the streets, just because he is accused of being wrong, then those who have killed and kicked his body around the streets are no different from the accused himself.

No human body should be pulled and kicked around the streets as what we see happening to Gaddafi et al. Every human being has a God given value, and no matter how guilty one is, there should be some kind of decency and humanly treatment.

If you gonna kill someone and pull his or her body on the street and kick his or her corpse around the streets while celebrating, then what makes you any different from the accused?

Well, firstly I was doing it as an experiment, but somehow someone out there was paying more close attention to it. After I posted it on our corporate site at http://www.grootgroup.com/company.

The book will focus on employment creation model based on my new “Job Multiplier Effect Model” which is based on Differentiation and the Derivative formulation. It will also entitle our ecosystem development in Namibia. Now I have less than 2 years to perfect this into a textbook.

I’m excited about writing this book. And I will need the help of my former and current professors.

I have nearly perfectly analytically predicted the death or capture of Osama bin Laden, which I blogged on my personal blog. I have also perfectly predicted the resignation of Former President Musharraf of Pakistan, of which I also blogged on my personal blog.

I also analytically analyzed the War in Afghanistan, of which both CNN and CBS Evening News followed and covered for one-long week based on my analytic blog. I also predicted the firing or resignation of Coach Tressel, Ohio State University’s once-famous Football coach, and very recently, I have analytically predicted the death of Steve Jobs. All these I have posted on my personal blog.

I use analytic and regression formulas (based on Econometric Models) combining advance calculus methods and predictive forecast tools to come up with the end results, a probability of what might become or happen with the issue in question.

And as I analyze and zoom up to 20 years from now; the way the current situation in Namibia, with more and more young people turning to alcohol, more than 50% of kids not graduating from high school, the current graduating students from Namibia’s tertiary institutions are not really graduating, having attained quality education which is in par with the world’s standard (students don’t wanna learn, follow the recent scandal at Unam with students trading grades for sex), all those factors and more; my predictive forecast end results for Namibia don’t look good. I don’t know were Namibia as a country will be in 20 years or less from now. And that makes me very sad.

Because, overall, our current awesome leaders as they get old and some go rest with our God, there might not be anyone to really take over the leadership. To whom can they pass the Torch?

When we were coming up as young people as well as our elders in Namibia under apartheid, our only aim and objective were; Freedom from the Apartheid South Africa. That’s all we cared about and we worked hard and sacrificed to attain that Freedom.

But now, those who call themselves “Born-Free”, those who were born after 1990, I can’t understand where their minds are focused. What are their ultimate goal? Because as I see it now in Namibia, most of them are all hip-hop wannabees, it’s all about alcohol, sex and party. What’s happening with them? What’s happening with Namibia’s youths today?

The only thing I pray for is for God to please help us realize our current development of the Groot ecosystem, so we can help transform Namibia’s economy into a world class developed country with more jobs creation, better paying jobs for the families to have good income so they can perhaps have more time with their children at home. As it all starts at home.

And this has to happen fast. But, developing a country’s economy is not all about setting up buildings and infrastructure, it’s also developing and training the minds of the people of the country so their mental attitude and moral aptitude, spiritual academics can be ready to transform them to what’s being developed. This is partly known as; Neuroeconomics.

“Stay foolish…” means, when everyone thinks that you are a fool for trying to do what you are doing, then pay no attention to them, simply stay a fool, continue to do what you set out to do, and in the end, someone will be eventually laughing to the bank.

Steve knows this too well, so as Bill Gates, even Mark Zuckerberg, and so as Donald Trump (especially when he was just a small time apartment manager in Cincinnati, Ohio).

At the beginning, non-visionaries always tend to stand on the side line, laughing at whomever is trying out new things, but in the end, they come running and begging, asking for hands out.

Now, who’s a fool?

Here is the strange thing though; the development of Groot is causing to make some enemies for me within Namibia, while earning high praises outside Africa. Why?

Some black Namibians just have no clue what is or how things are done, and until they see something standing there already, then they are happy but they still have to find some other things to complain. They don’t become the process, instead they stand on the side line with a bottle of Windhoek Lager on one hand while pointing out the wrong things with the other hand, instead of putting down the bottle and get in the process to help make things right; which eventually will help their communities and the country at large.

On the side of the white Namibians, it’s obvious that the large portion of the Namibian economy is still controlled by the whites since the Apartheid era. White Namibians still own most of the larger businesses in Namibia, hence they control most of the Namibian economy. While the blacks are crying foul over the BEE, because they want to be handed things on the silver platter without ever working hard for them.

How can you ever learn how to successfully make it in life, in your life; 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, most of the time you are drunk? You get up in the morning, get to work, spend the whole day barely holding on at work, and your boss dare not saying anything to you about your low productivity.

And then after work, you walk to the nearest and famous Kambashu (informal liquor place) to drink your head off; and get home late, and when the kids cry of hunger since you drink up the money, then you wanna beat up your wife. Yes, that’s part of the story for some of the Namibians. No time for self-development so you can improve yourself so that one day you can start and grow your own business.

All in all, who ever controls the majority of the cash flow in the country, controls the economy. Thus the White Namibians control the economy.

But, most of the white Namibians are not really happy about the development of Groot, because of the way it’s. Groot will make them change the way they normally do their business, it will change the way they do things; meaning that they will have to pay more salaries and offer better fringe benefits for their workers than what they normally do now (the law of supply and demand), and if they don’t do so, then the black workers will be able to go elsewhere where they will get better paying jobs.

Furthermore, Groot will bring in more foreign companies, and that’s the competition that the majority of the White Namibians are afraid of; as this will be taking away their beef; digging into their cash cow. So, for them to survive, they will have to beef up their production output, improve services, and product offerings in order to par up with the competition, if not, then they will be out of business.

Basically the entire Groot development will change the entire face of the Namibian economy, which in general is good for the country; consumers, businesses and the government, because it will bring efficiency and responsibility within the Namibian marketplace.

And those that will be really short affected will be the white Namibian business owners because then they will have to change how they do things in Namibia, and that’s more like disrupting their comfort zone of money making pit; which they have been enjoying for many years.

Overall, competition is good for the economy; for an improved customer service, products, prices, and overall; a better developed and more lean country.

So, what’s wrong with that picture? After all, this song is nearly like all other African governments? What’s wrong is that the Service sector in Kenya makes up more than 65% of the GDP and industrial sector only about 25%, with Agriculture makes up the difference. And as little as the Agriculture’s composite is the lowest, more than 75% of the workforce (that’s out of about 1.6 million Kenyans) are employed in Agricultural projects.

So, what’s wrong with that? Again, this is a familiar song for most of African economies.

No, I am afraid to publish this article. I don’t think Kenya would like me, if they read this article.

Also, perhaps the whole African continent may be angry if this article is published.

In summary, I am just angry at how Africa manages its rare resources. The African continent is the wealthiest on planet earth, and yet the majority of Africans live like animals due to poverty. But why so?

Because Africa has stuck on the stone-aged ideology of colonialism and imperialism, and they forgot to learn how to move from a theory of a static economic under-development to a rapid and dynamic economic industrialization.

Africans have inherited political freedom from their oppressors some as many as over 50 years ago now, and which by the way, they have had no clue on how to make themselves to become economic independent.

They inherited political power but not economic power, as those who used to control their political power have never actually relinquished their hands from the African economy. And Africans instead of becoming innovative to develop the tools that could empower their market economies, they focus more on short-term goals on how to live today; what to eat for dinner today and what to eat for tomorrow instead on spending long nights in their garages and huts inventing new products which could help them develop their economy for the long-term.

Yesterday, I read on Facebook on someone who posted a comment on Desmond Tutu’s picture with a comment that said: “they don’t make them like that anymore”. Of course not, we are not in the 60′s anymore.

Today, young Africans are more focused on alcohol, sex, drugs and violence instead on the virtues of humanity. While in the 60′s, most Africans were more focused on how to rid colonialism and free themselves from the chains of the Oppressors.

For today, young Africans are not focusing on anything else other than where the party is tonight, and whoever buys the most booze becomes the most popular in town. So, where will Africa be let’s say in 50 years from now?

And for that, if nothing changes, even 500 years from now, Africa will still be a continent riddled with poverty, diseases, and violence. And yes, the new form of colonialism is Africans themselves. It’s no longer white people but Africans themselves. Why? Because in most African countries, in order to get a government-tender or to become successful in business, one must know someone who knows who’s related to someone in high ranking government position.

(Man, then why am struggling? I’m related to many top government officials within the Namibian government, including President Pohamba. I have never even met him in person, even when he’s my cousin, I never even went to visit him. Oh, that’s because I want to earn everything I can acquire and have. I don’t want anything handed to me on a silver platter. I have to work hard for everything I want in my life. And basically, I don’t want people to talk for as much as they talk and say, it’s because I’m related to the President, and I don’t want them to say crazy things. Whatever I have, I earn and will earn it through my own hard-work and dealings.)

I remember being in a Taxi about 6 months ago in Windhoek, driven by a young guy from Okalongo (Northern Namibia) and he was telling me, that in Namibia, if you want to become rich, you must become a politician. So, he left his rural home and came to Windhoek so he could work his way up, to become a politician, so that he can be rich one day.

But how can that work; well, you just have to be well-connected to some members of the political party. Then you become may be first an organizer, then a councilor (municipal or town), I don’t know, then later, you continue to serve until you are appointed perhaps to become a mayor of a town, then a governor, and perhaps the next you know it, you become an MP (Member of Parliament) and that’s when the money starts rolling in. Or am I wrong? How does it work then? I honestly don’t know. What I know is that for the market (political market) to work best, politicians who hold public offices, should be elected by the majority of votes, not politically appointed.

So then that means, once you are a politician in Africa, then you can get rich, right? In America, if you want to become rich (not wealthy) fast, if not selling illegal drugs, then become an artist (singer or rapper) or an athlete (basketball or football player), that’s why most black families in America spend more time and resources helping their kids to achieve their goals.

In western economies, most of the time, you can never be a successful politician unless if you had worked your way up first, mostly in difference disciplines such as in business or similar fields. That you have to prove yourself first, have to be successful in your field first, before you can venture out into running for a public office as a politician.

But in Africa, it’s the other way around. And who the heck that lied to the politicians, anywhere in the world, that they can become successful entrepreneurs any way? Where on earth have you ever seen or heard of a-once successful politician who went into business after politics, started everything from scratch and become extremely successful? Even Bill Clinton can’t do it, let alone Obama won’t be able to do it.

No, I cannot publish this article, it will make Africans hate me.

And, why do African governments like to copy each other any way?

Once one government comes up with one document, then most other governments would have similar documents;

Now nearly every African government has “Vision 20-something” papers. Kenya has Vision 2030, Namibia also has one, so as more other African governments.

And basically, the guy who’s hired as the consultant to write up these documents, all he does is change the name of the country in the document and share it with other governments.

And most of these consultants are foreigners, mostly those who have failed in their own countries, and then they go to Africa and act like they are big. And in return, they charge exorbitant amounts of money as consultants to African governments.

African governments are the largest employers in Africa, but yet, most of the documents; policies, technical manuals, etc., are written and most of the work in Africa are done by foreign consultants. Why? What happened to the African government employees? Why can’t they do the work and write the documents themselves?

And if you are a foreign consultant and dreaming of making a lot of money in Africa as a consultant, and if you are not white, then sorry, you won’t make it big in Africa. But if you are white, money will start rolling to you the moment you show up. African politicians like and favors to work with white consultants (behind closed doors).

I have seen some lousy work, that was done by some foreign consultants hired by some African governments, and were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the work was awful. Now the problem is further continuum. How? Because once the foreign consultant wrote the document, and once he delivers it to the office that hired him, then he gets paid and leaves.

Then the government will have to figure out how to implement; let alone interpret, that document to put into action to yield any intended results.

Africa, wake up!

In business, if you present your business plan to investors for funding, then you must know and able to defend whatever your business plan claims. If you can’t defend the claims made in your business plan, then how will you know what to do to implement its course of action?

That means, if you wrote your own business plan, then you should know and understand all the claims made in your document, and you should be able to defend it at anytime, because you wrote it; you have the vision of how you plan, operate, manage and make it work. So, if you hire a consultant to write your business plan, then how will you know, understand and be able to defend the claims made in your business plan?

That’s why in African government offices, there are so many documents and papers full of dust in file cabinets, that were written by paid foreign consultants, who simply write them up and hand them in, but Africans have no clue how to implement the claims made in those documents.

When and how can we make Africa eventually realize its potential? A continent with a wealth value at more than US$65 trillion, and Africa is still a poor continent?

If you want to contact me, feel free to email me at simon@grootgroup.com or visit our web site at www.grootgroup.com to learn how we can help your stagnant economy to rapidly develop and grow faster.

WINDHOEK, Namibia – October 1, 2011 — /GPG/ — Groot Property Group (Pty) Ltd is developing a new township namely, Groot, an upscale multifarious community to be comprised of more than 2,100 commercial retails with light and heavy industrial parks and more than 160,000 residential housing units on a private land near Etosha National Park in Namibia.

In an effort to help finance its initial green scheme projects for the development of Groot, the Company has authorize to issue 10 million shares, which is comprised of 5 million shares of ordinary (common) stock and 2 million shares of preferred stock, of which 80,000 shares of ordinary stock have been issued.

The Company hopes to raise more than US$9 million (N$65 million) from the sale of the issued stocks, for which is by invitation only. The capital from the sale of the issued shares will finance the needed preliminary technical work for the green scheme projects as required for the successful development of Groot.

The total budget for the complete planning, development, engineering and construction of Groot is about N$6 billion. The Company plans to raise the total budget through a combination of debt and equity financing through a network of connected financial institutions in the US and Europe, while Standard Bank will finance 50% of the total budget for the development of Groot.

“The market scope for Groot and all of business-cum-industrial entities it will create will inevitably be not just Namibia with its limited population size but also the various Southern African Development Community (SADC) member countries bordering on Namibia.” Says Simon Kapenda, Chief Economist of Groot Property Group.

Groot is poised to become one of the fastest growing and largest towns in Namibia, an innate character, a center of attraction for the concentration of a multitude of essential socio-economic activities with supportive and complementary relationships. A corollary of this will be applied necessity to mobilize a diversity of professional inputs in areas of engineering, socio-economic research, entrepreneurial development, social services and others for the greater good of Namibia.

About Groot Property Group (Pty) Ltd
Groot Property Group (Pty) Ltd is a premier rapid industrial development and foreign direct investment management company which focuses on implementing applied neuroeconomics and systems dynamic to efficiently explore, develop, and manage self-sustained ecosystems for the slow-developing and stagnant economies. Learn more about Groot Property Group (Pty) Ltd at www.grootgroup.com/investor.

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Web site: www.grootgroup.com