 During an interview in February 2012 with journalist Tileni Mongudhi, Kazenambo allegedly made a racist attack against his fellow ministers, calling them "stupid Owambos", and said that Ovambo people "are just like the Boers, worse because you are hungry and stupid".The interview apparently started on a cordial note until Mongudhi asked if Kazenambo was proudly acting "more of a Herero than a national representative" in relation to the delegation he led to Germany to retrieve Herero remains.Kazenambo then accused Mongudhi of being part of an "Owambo conspiracy" and seized his voice recorder.