Hi, I'm Nambulantakombo and I'm excited to tell you that my award-winning

podcast Dear Dota returns on the 27th February for a brand new season. Dear

Dota is the podcast from the BBC World Service full of personal insight and

thought for letters of advice. It's a handbook to life for daughters everywhere.

So if you haven't already, catch up with the first season now while you're

waiting for season two. Search for Dear Dota wherever you get your BBC podcast.

A coast of Namibia is truly spectacular. In front of me, the cold waters of the

South Atlantic are stretching to the horizon. The waves are rolling in. Behind me,

the famous dunes of the Namib desert are rising into a clear blue sky. And the

water here is really special too because the Banguela current makes it one of the

richest fishing grounds in the world. The abundance of fish should make for a

good news story. Instead, it's given rise to the biggest corruption case in

Namibia's history, widely known as fish rot. And it's a case involving one of

the largest companies in a country 10,000 kilometres north, Iceland. This

scandal is getting wall to wall coverage, bringing down powerful politicians and

provoking outrage.

So we must unite against people who are stealing from us in our future generations.

After independence in 1990, Namibia set out to reclaim the riches of its shores,

which had been exploited for decades by other nations. Millions of tons of

valuable hake and horsemackerel had been pulled from the ocean, with foreign

companies plundering the profits and depleting Namibia's resources. The bold

idea was for Namibians to claim their share of the spoils and develop their

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