More than a thousand Namibian youth took to the streets of Windhoek yesterday, where the Speaker of Parliament was summoned to receive a petition calling on the government to abort plans to build a new parliament.
The protest started with a few hundred people at the Katutura Complex, with many joining by the time the group reached the Ausspannplatz area. Chanting and singing while listening to speaker after speaker sharing reasons why the construction of a new parliament should not be a priority, the mood was a mixture of joy and anger.
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