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Namibia President Pledges to Expropriate White Owned Land
Namibia’s President, Hage Geingob, has called for a change to the constitution to allow the government to expropriate land. “The willing-buyer-willing-seller principle has not delivered results. Careful consideration should be given to expropriation,” the president said. Namibia wants to transfer 43 percent, of its arable agricultural land, to previously disadvantaged blacks by 2020. Namibia will be the second African country to expropriate land after South Africa should this materialize. Just like South Africans, black Namibians were driven off their land, banished to barren and often crowded homelands while being denied official ownership or tenure rights during colonization. Namibia is among the world’s most economically unequal nations with i'ts 6% white population owning the most enterprises.
