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Article: Biting the land reform bullet. (Namibia)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- December 1, 1994
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The Namibian Government has finally bitten the bullet of land reform, but as Asser Ntinda reports, it has been warned by commercial farmers that the proposed legislation could lead to economic collapse.
PRESSURE for action by the Namibian Government on land reform is great because of the continuing sense of grievance that five years after independence 4,000 white farmers own 36 million hectares of arable land. This is approximately the same area to which Namibia's other 1.5 million people have access.
Most of the whites run vast cattle-ranches. Several hundred are absentee landlords living in South Africa and Europe.
The aim of the Commercial ...