Namibia: The Painful Chasm Between Political Privilege and Shack Reality – Opinion

It’s time to face a common myth: the idea that people who live in comfort or luxury can empathise with those who live in poverty.

Each election season, well-dressed voices emerge from air-conditioned offices promising to “transform the informal settlements” .

Their feet have never touched the muddy floors of a leaking shack, but they wear the faces of saviours. How can someone who has never experienced a wound heal it?

How can the misery of the valleys of poverty be…