Education Struggle Part 3 : Ingozi
Oshakati is home to the infamous; from Roubrem and Makondo to Bad town planning and the notorious Ingozi or Oshakati Junior primary school as it was officially known back then. In my early years I was subjected to three rather torturous years there. How did I end up in that cesspool of notoriety? I’m still asking myself the same question. Ingozi is the Zulu word for "danger", why anyone would send kids to a school named danger puzzled me. The name itself struck fear into learners from other schools; just a whisper of that name would make kids from Erundu Combined School piss in their pants. Personally I don’t blame them; if you had Mamba yaNkanda roaming around in a school shirt then you would also piss your pants, if he could beat up teachers then what chance did us scrawny and puny pre-pubescent kids have? (This dude was mean! He made Scarface look like a choir boy). Ingozi was like being stuck in one long episode of Yizo Yizo, which was a South African drama series famo...