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Original Post Date: 2004-02-26 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 2/26/2004 4:33:51 PM
IMPORTANT: Namibian govt plans to expropriate farms
[Here we go… We’ve been warning of this for years now. At first you heard that some crazy black trade unionists were threatening to do it – that was weeks and months ago… Then they said that the Namibian govt was against it. And now… here it comes from that same government which was “against it” just a short while back… Nice and deceptive huh!?!?
The same has happened in South Africa. Wait… the Government will start it. They come up with their bogus logic and junk excuses as to “why” they “need” to do this. Meanwhile, they’ve been plotting to do it for years, and Robert Mugabe taught them how to do it!!!
Of course, at first they will say they will pay “fairly” for these farms. But wait… whether those white farmers will actually see a decent amount of money remains to be seen. This “land reform” actually costs a lot more money than the governments can ever afford, so in time they pay the farmers less and less until they eventually will just steal it – lock stock and barrel… from the white farmers.
South African farmers are going to be next… Jan]
The Namibian government announced on Wednesday that it will expropriate a select number of white-owned farms to accelerate its efforts at redistributing property to landless blacks.
“The land possession pattern in our country has been designed by colonialism to benefit a small group of minority settlers, at the expense of the majority,” Prime Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab said in an address to the nation aired on state television.
“Our young nation still struggles to bring about balance and undo the effects of the unjust land redistribution.”
Most of the wealth in this southern African country remains in the hands of whites who make up less than five percent of the population of 1,8-million.
Since 1995, the government has been spending up to 20-million Namibian dollars (US$3,05-million) per year on its “willing seller, willing buyer” programme that gives government first option on any arable land that becomes available.
But the programme has been widely criticised for being too slow. Late last year, unions representing landless labourers began threatening to invade commercial farms if their grievances were not addressed.
The threats raised fears of the kind of violent land seizures that have plunged neighbouring Zimbabwe into political and economic turmoil.
Gurirab acknowledged the current land redistribution process was “cumbersome” and unable to meet demand. More than 240 000 people are still awaiting resettlement, he said.
Gurirab did not specify how many farms would now be expropriated, or when the process would begin. But he said land owners would be fairly compensated.
He urged Namibians to “exercise patience and not to engage in unlawful actions during the implementation of the reform process”.
Land is a charged issue in Namibia. The country was first ruled by Germany, then South Africa, which imposed the same apartheid policies it applied at home. Blacks couldn’t own land until the mid-1980s, and most of those working it today still can’t afford to buy it.
The decision to start expropriating land comes after South Africa took similar steps to speed up its redistribution programme a decade after apartheid ended. – Sapa-AP
Source: Daily Mail & Guardian
URL: http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=31794br>