This paper posits that the present is characterised by a planetary condition of financialisation. The paper traces the historical development of Namibias economy on its journey from colonial dispossession to racialised capitalism and further to a liberalised free-market economy. It proposes that Namibias economy is increasingly financializing, and thereby is not only dismantling the rather modest national productive base, but actively hindering the prospects of overcoming the legacies of a deeply unequal society and its apartheid geography. In this context, where the quest for economic growth is as desperate as it is ubiquitous, only active opposition will be able to develop and push for alternative economies, and the alternative production of housing, space, and more equitable social arrangements.
