[Another S.African reader on my site sent his comments with this news item. It disgusts me, but does not surprise me. Its not stupidity. It is downright EVIL.

Take note of the Namibian Govt Official’s hogwash statement that “Dignity is more important than a full stomach.” Somehow, I think that prick needs to ask a couple of million ZIMBABWEANS how they feel about that, because I think they would disagree strongly. Sometimes I can’t even listen to this complete nonsense which issues forth from their mouths. Its all garbage of course… because you cannot, logically, justify these land seizures. This thin veneer of so-called “logic” merely hides the hate in their hearts. If they had to have been honest they would have had to admit that they are vengeful black racists who are petrified that whites might succeed where they will fail and hence they have to smash the whites down now. But being the liars they are – the truth is a stranger to their mouths! Jan]

Jan,
Can you believe these idiots! F_cking morons, can™t they see what this kind of action has caused.

To the economy of the very country they are holding up as a shining example of how do this?

… these @ssholes actually deserve to die they are so stupid!

Namibia consults Zimbabwe about land reform
May 23, 2006
By Andnetwork .com

NAMIBIA will expropriate land to speed up its land reform programme if
the willing-buyer willing-seller system fails to address the land imbalances in the country, Namibian Deputy Minister of Lands and Resettlement, Mr Isak Katali, has said during his visit to Zimbabwe.

He said Namibia would follow Zimbabwe’s example to economically
empower indigenous people by expediting its land reform programme.

The minister, who is in Zimbabwe on a five-day official visit, was
addressing journalists after meeting Zimbabwe’s Minister of Lands, Land
Reform and Resettlement, Diydmus Mutasa, and Minister of State for Special Affairs Responsible for Land and Resettlement Programme, Flora Buka, in Harare yesterday.

“The purpose of our visit is to come and look and listen to our
colleagues in Zimbabwe on how they tackled their successful land reform
programme. “We feel the speed they took the land is commendable and we would like to see how they did it,” Mr Katali said. He added that land reform was an important aspect that needed to be urgently addressed as most of the land was still in the hands of the minority in his country. “Land reform is important to Namibia and we feel that the same colonisers are the same people who colonised Zimbabwe. We also feel that if the people of Zimbabwe did this we can do it in the same manner,” he said.

Mr Katali said the country was facing various challenges and had
decided to use the expropriation system together with the willing-buyer
willing-seller policy. Namibia embarked on its land reform programme in 2002 but the process of acquiring land and redistributing it to the landless majority has been slow. Namibia has managed to acquire about 829,486 hectares so far, short of the land resettlement target of nine million hectares.

“Since independence, a number of people have been in need of land. We
have managed to resettle a significant number and that is why we are trying to go with the willing-buyer willing-seller approach together with the expropriation system,” he said. He said the Namibian government has already set aside funds to finance the programme. “In Namibia, government has set aside money every year for the purchase of land. If government is
expropriating any property it will use its own money to compensate,” he
said.

Asked whether Namibia was not afraid of sanctions from the West by
making such a move, Mr Katali said: “If they come, what we have is land for the people first. It’s good to keep your dignity rather than a full stomach. Land is important.” He also said the opposition parties in Namibia were supportive of the land redistribution programme. “We are united on the issue of land redistribution and even opposition parties are very supportive of our land redistribution programme,” he said.

Mr Katali, who is leading a delegation of officials from the Ministry
of Lands and Resettlement in Namibia, will also tour A1 and A2 farms. He is also expected to meet senior Government and Zanu-PF officials.

Source: The Herald