THE ongoing saga of the struggle orphans who broke all known and unknown world records in their struggle from the Omusati Region in the far North to Windhoek, added a new twist yesterday. Their most ill-conceived planned and most ill-advised march to the Office of The Prime Minister ended in a fracas between them and law enforcement. The travelling circus lost and was bound to lose ever since they gave their first step towards OPM.

Just after independence, Namibia had quite a significant number of small industries manufacturing an array of consumer goods, but they have since disappeared as a result of the inevitable opening up of the local market to the world market.