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This paper describes how Namibia has remained the country with the highest income discrepancies in the world. The author states that in the absence of any coherent socio-economic redistributive measures for the formerly colonized majority, strategies such as affirmative action and Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) have claimed to uplift the previously disadvantaged groups. The paper shows that measures such as BEE have however only resulted in a slight diversification of the local class structure, with the new political office bearers and its clientele as the main beneficiaries of the programs.