"No Resettlement Available:" An Assessment of the Expropriation Principle and its Impact on Land Reform in Namibia
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"No Resettlement Available:" An Assessment of the Expropriation Principle and its Impact on Land Reform in Namibia
Description
The “land question” is among the most difficult issues facing independent Namibia. About half of the agricultural land in Namibia is in the hands of about 3 500 whites, while nearly a million blacks live on subsistence farms in the communal lands. Expropriation of agricultural land is both a popular and controversial route to achieving the land reform needed. The Agricultural (Commercial) Land Reform Act 6 of 1995 (ACLRA) is the primary legal mechanism for securing land reform. Although expropriation has been legal under this Act since 1995, the Government of Namibia held to a “willing buyer / willing seller” process for political reasons, until announcing in 2004, after much public criticism over “the slow pace of land reform”, that it would proceed with land expropriation.
Creator
Sidney L. Harring and Willem Odendaal
Source
http://www.lac.org.na/projects/lead/Pdf/exprorep.pdf
Publisher
Legal Assistance Centre
Date
2007
Rights
© Legal Assistance Centre 2007
Format
PDF
Language
English
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Citation
Sidney L. Harring and Willem Odendaal, “"No Resettlement Available:" An Assessment of the Expropriation Principle and its Impact on Land Reform in Namibia,” Namibia Digital Repository, accessed April 25, 2024, https://namibiadigitalrepository.com/items/show/408.