Namibia Land Reform

So the next Land Reform Conference will take place at the beginning of October 2018.
Any views on that?
Renzo
 
I assume you've all heard of what's going on in South Africa?
 
And much of it doesn't sound very good.
 
Hopefully Namibia can do it better than SA!!
There are just 2 mio people in Namibia...lets hope.
 
Namibia is an interesting place with an interesting history. As a desert country, much of it was uninhabitable until the European technology of drilling bore holes was introduced. (Not all of the land, but much of it)...Now the people who didn't own it....want it back....The same "something for nothing" mentality that exists in segments of the USA and in much of RSA. The nightly ABC news has a "racial hatred" segment....as I call it, every night. They tell a one sided story of racial bigotry. But you will never hear anything of African land theft.....never a thing......FWB
 
'Failed, frustrated politicians want to take advantage of land issue,' says Namibian leader Geingob
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10:55 28/08/2018


Namibian President Hage Geingob has reportedly warned politicians in the southern African country to guard against using the land issue for political gains.

According to The Namibian newspaper, Geingob said this during the opening of the Swapo central committee meeting over the weekend.

The paper quoted sources as saying that Geingob also spoke against "ancestral land claims, and the proposal to expropriate land without compensation".

Geingob said he did not support ancestral land claims, adding that "failed and frustrated politicians" wanted to take advantage of the emotive topic.

This came as reports on Monday said that the Namibian leader had urged citizens to take part in the debate over mooted land reforms, including the expropriation of land, in order to avoid chaos.

The southern African country was set to hold a "national land conference" from October 1-5, for discussion of policies that will accelerate the land reform programme.

"I believe that we should have difficult conversations, as Namibians, with the aim of finding peaceful and sustainable solutions to the challenges of inequality, landlessness and outstanding pains of genocide," AFP quoted Geingob as saying.

"If we don't correct the wrongs of the past through appropriate policies and actions, our peace will not be sustainable," the president warned.

The debate came as neighbouring South Africa was considering plans to allow for expropriating farms without compensating the owners, largely the white minority which possess 72% of farms.

Geingob, who was the country's first prime minister, was one of the drafters of the Namibian constitution which protected property rights of people who owned land prior to independence.

He is however facing increasing pressure to return ancestral lands to the rightful owners.

https://m.news24.com/Africa/News/fa...d-issue-says-namibian-leader-geingob-20180828
 
Yes, maybe we could give them some money. Or a free hunting license. Or I know, maybe a reservation or a conservancy and free health care. That should do it........FWB
 
The Land Conference in Namibia has started today monday. For the interested it is broadcasted live on Youtube. Just search for it. Has foreigner land owner I feel its not going to be fun........
 
• EDWARD MUMBUU JNR

THE willing-buyer, willing-seller land redistribution policy has not failed, but overpricing has made it nearly impossible for the state to acquire land for redistribution purposes, Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila has said.

“I think what has been a challenge is the pricing that has escalated so much that it has become unaffordable for the government to buy it in quantities that would enable it to redistribute land in a manner that would transform ownership in the country,” she said.

(Namibian Govt. is so short of cash they've sent all Non-essential soldiers home on leave so the Army doesn't have to feed them?)

Kuugongelwa-Amadhila acknowledged the importance of white farmers, who own the majority of commercial farms in the country.

“It is important that these compatriots are brought to the table, and that we continue to engage them so that they have a greater appreciation of the problem we face,” she observed.

The Prime Minister then emphasised the importance of peace and stability, adding that the productivity of land can be improved without eroding the benefits of those who own it at present.

Kuugongelwa-Amadhila added that land redistribution should not raise any uncertainties amongst investors.

“Whatever adjustments we make to our laws, we do not intend to create undue apprehension amongst investors,” the former finance minister assured, adding that the government intends to manage Namibia's resources to ensure that everyone has “a piece of the cake to survive on”.

Given the large numbers of NON-governmental organizations and political parties boycotting this conference it's hard to see any major radical changes coming out. Just look at how SA has walked back their radical proposals?
 
Overpricing? The market determines the price. If you don't like it, don't buy it. If a seller wants to sell, he will take the highest offer....common sense. It really means the govt wants it cheaper, but overpricing is their prefered term. Several options come to mind. 1. Get more than 80,000 tax payers in the entire country. That would help. Now, everything that is bought is paid for by a few white farmers. Tax a few others. 2. Stop buying business jets. 3 is at least one too many. Ratchet down a little gravy and there will be yearly purchases from willing buyers to groups of have nots ....who promise their soul and their first born so that government graft doesnt need to end.....just slow down a little.........................FWB
 
https://www.dw.com/en/namibias-pres...-from-whites/a-45719781?maca=en-EMail-sharing

What a lie that the people were driven off their land by the Germans. There were no people in Namibia then! There was no water so there were only nomads that traveled through. My friends that farm in the south dug the first water wells in the late 1800's and built farms where there was nothing. They took nothing from anyone! I hope this is just some political grandstanding.
Philip
 
FORMER Presidents Sam Nujoma and Hifikepunye Pohamba called for a referendum to amend the Constitution to address land ownership inequalities.
Both Nujoma and Pohamba said this when they addressed the ongoing second national land conference that opened in Windhoek yesterday.

Referring to statistics about previously advantaged people owning 70% of the land, Nujoma said that trend was not sustainable, and should “no longer be allowed to continue by the current generation”.

He said there was an urgent need to amend the property rights provided for by Article 16 of the Constitution, through a referendum, to address land ownership in the country.

“We need as Namibians to unite and work together and adopt severe, comprehensive and sustainable agrarian land reform to address the massive imbalances of land ownership in Namibia,” Nujoma said, adding that the state should own the land.

“For this reason, the Constitution of the Republic needs to be amended through a referendum. It is only through this way that the state can own the entire land in the country, including agricultural, commercial land,” Nujoma stated.

He said the referendum should also give direction to the government to take over all land, including “commercial agricultural land” in the country on behalf of the state.

Nujoma urged the land conference to pass a resolution to bar foreign ownership of commercial land in Namibia, and that “mechanisms should be put in place to speed up the expropriation of land belonging to absentee landlords without compensation”.

“Twenty-eight years after independence, massive inequality still exists in the ownership and distribution of land. This is partly attributed to the inconsistencies in Articles 16, 100 and 131 of the Namibian Constitution,” he stressed.

On the expropriation of farmland, Pohamba said the land should be expropriated with fair compensation, which can only apply to structures erected on the land, but the land itself should not be paid for.
 
YOU can have a stable government and a president in power for a long time as has Zim if you kill or place in prison all of your opposition, then you can stay in power and line your pockets while the country falls apart.

And backed by RED CHINA!
 
https://www.dw.com/en/namibias-pres...-from-whites/a-45719781?maca=en-EMail-sharing

What a lie that the people were driven off their land by the Germans. There were no people in Namibia then! There was no water so there were only nomads that traveled through. My friends that farm in the south dug the first water wells in the late 1800's and built farms where there was nothing. They took nothing from anyone! I hope this is just some political grandstanding.
Philip

So then, that makes the Germans the “ancestral people” of Namibia.
Problem Solved, correct ?
 
Tuesday morning's deliberations were described as “just more speechifying” and the criticism that there have been “no open discussion as yet”.

One participant spoken to by The Namibian stated: “Technocrats are dominating and some are making sense. Not a bad thing, but it's really not a national conversation about land. There are too many voices missing. Most speakers have been Oshiwambo males – can that be right in view of the historical context?”

Another comment made was: “The program is really badly structured, aside from the issue of who is actually here and who is boycotting.”

Others were struck by the lack of representation of the business community, farmers, environmental groups, property owners' and developers' representatives and other sector groups with interests in land discussions.
 
Inequality is a funny thing. They say it is always the result of bias. I saw a race.....a mile run......not everyone finished in exactly the same time. I didn't see the start. But it must have been rigged....biased somehow. Or else everyone would have finished at the same time, and there would have been no "inequality". FWB
 
Well, gave up on Rhodesia, then South Africa...won’t support racist communist thugs. Namibia was a shining star (or at least not the dung heap SA and Rhodesia chose to become).

50% of arable land being stolen to give to blacks...because they’ll vote for Geingob and his fellow travelers.

Real pity...another country off my Africa map to hunt.
 

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