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Original Post Date: 2004-03-04 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 3/4/2004 4:48:32 AM
Namibia"s land reform cost N$1bn
[Zimbabwe II. Take note of the minister’s response to “are you going the way of Zimbabwe”. Note his cryptic, stupid answer. Jan]
Windhoek – Namibia’s programme of redistributing farmland to formerly disadvantaged groups will cost more than N$1bn (US$150m) and take about five years, officials said on Wednesday.
Frans Tsheehama, permanent secretary in the lands, rehabilitation and resettlement ministry, told reporters that nine million hectares (22.2 million acres) of land was needed to settle the estimated 240 000 applicants.
“We need over N$1bn for this exercise”, he said.
“As long as people are on the resettlement list, we must continue with expropriation, the list is growing,” adding that the “majority of white farms are not productive”.
Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba said the envisaged land reform programme should be completed in five years.
“Today my officials will start identifying farms for expropriation. We target absentee landlords, those farmers who have excess of land, like five farms owned by one person and if we see the land is good (for farming), then we go for expropriation.”
A day earlier, he had stressed that the process would be peaceful and according to law, underlining that any aggrieved farmer could take resort to litigation.
When asked if Namibia would go the way of Zimbabwe, where the seizure of white-owned commerical farms has created international controversy, Pohamba gave a terse answer.
“I don’t know what is happening in Zimbabwe, I am minister of lands of Namibia, not of Zimbabwe,” he said.
Of the estimated 3 800 commercial farms in the country, some 700 have changed hands and have black owners since Namibia’s independence in 1990.
Source: NEWS24.COM
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2…br>