Natumbo Nandi Ndaitwa
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Heathrow shutdown causes travel chaos
The whole issue is not that you were elected because you are a female. It was on your merit that the people who nominate and supported looked at you. Of course, because in the world, including Africa, We have very few women president. That's why it has been advocated in that way.
Global News Podcast
Heathrow shutdown causes travel chaos
But it's a good thing that we as countries, we are realizing that just as men, women can also hold the position of authority in our respective countries.
Global News Podcast
Heathrow shutdown causes travel chaos
You know, I'm a woman activist and I will continue to fight gender-based violence against That is not a unique story coming from Nigeria. We are hearing it all over the world that women are being sexually victimized. You are hearing women being asked for sex favors. in order maybe to be employed or to be promoted.
Global News Podcast
Heathrow shutdown causes travel chaos
And of course, it's a very, very difficult issue to deal with because not all the victims are ready to come out, but definitely we have to fight it. One of the elements that is put in our constitution is the land rights, that the land belongs to the state, except that one is privately owned, which can be expropriated with fair compensation.
Global News Podcast
Heathrow shutdown causes travel chaos
We then say, fine, we will not go to outright expropriation, but let us have a policy that of willing buyer, willing seller, so that the government can buy the land from those who privately owned it, knowing also that the way they got it is through colonial occupation. But here we have to respect our constitution.
Global News Podcast
Heathrow shutdown causes travel chaos
So then we start to have now the land tax that those who have it, they have to be taxed. And that, to a certain extent, is pushing some to sell it so that we have land redistribution.