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Namibia: Kapenda Calls for Faster Land Expropriation
New Era ^ | August 2, 2004 | Wezi Tjaronda

Posted on 08/02/2004 1:34:07 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Windhoek - NATIONAL Union of Namibian Workers' (NUNW) President Risto Kapenda says the government should expropriate as much land as possible in a short period of time, and without any compensation.

He suggested that calls for an orderly expropriation were tantamount to dancing to the tune of Europeans and would be an insult to the people land was taken away.

This contradicts government statements that land will be expropriated with just compensation. More than 15 farmers have so far been served with notices of intent to expropriate.

Kapenda said in an interview on Friday with a journalist from a German radio station, that the right criterion for expropriation would be to target farms that have bad relations with farm workers. "Anyone who maltreats workers, their land must be taken," he said.

He added that by compensating farmers for their expropriated land, the government would be trespassing its own laws through purchasing things that were originally stolen from its own people.

He also said farmers are humiliating their workers and treating them like trash, giving as examples recent events at Ongombo, Kalkpan and Outjo.

"People are called monkeys every day and yet they live on farms that belonged to our forefathers," he said.

Without land, added Kapenda, black people could never dream of controlling the economy.

The NUNW president also scoffed at suggestions that the agricultural industry would crumble and affect the economy of the country negatively, if the government expropriated farms.

He said it is a myth that white farmers are carrying the economy because when Europeans set foot on Namibian soil, Namibians were already farming.

"How many of them have degrees in agriculture?" he asked, adding that the farm workers are doing all the work on the farms.

A commercial farmer who preferred anonymity said people lived in a given system and they bought land from others that had it. Expropriating land without compensation, said the farmer, would be making them pay for the sins of someone else.

Meanwhile, commercial farmers are said to be hesitant to invest on their farms for fear that their farms may be expropriated next.

"They cannot repair their fences, they cannot put up structures because they don't know where they stand," said Peter Bassingwaighte, a farmer in the Uhlenhorst area.

He added that the process had brought about some uncertainty.

Asked whether the union would succeed in its call vis-a-vis government's policy, Kapenda was quick to say, "A nation has its patience and there comes a time when you decide you have had too much."

He promised that mass expropriation of farms would happen much sooner than later. "It won't take us 20 years like Zimbabwe. This is the voice of the masses speaking. It will happen," he added.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; namibia
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1 posted on 08/02/2004 1:34:15 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Sell everything you can as fast as you can. Cash can help you in your knew home. Consider plowing salt into the fields and burning down your house and barns on the way out of town. Good luck.


2 posted on 08/02/2004 1:37:40 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Another African kleptocracy about to become a violent, chaotic, starving economic basket case. And modeling itself on Zimbabwe no less.


3 posted on 08/02/2004 1:38:05 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett
They've modeled themselves on our Democrats who discovered they can vote themselves money from the public purse.
4 posted on 08/02/2004 1:41:30 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Apparently AIDS isn't killing this clown fast enough.


5 posted on 08/02/2004 1:42:34 PM PDT by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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To: John Jorsett

Africa is rapidly becoming one big write off. They are running head long into a dark ages and then will say it it the responsiblity of the west to bail them out. I let them sleep in the bed they are making. If yoe are white, GET THE H@#$ OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!!!


6 posted on 08/02/2004 1:42:57 PM PDT by TXBSAFH (Power corrupts..... Absolute power can be fun.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
I understand that, because of their "special relationship," several (but, interestingly, not all) of the mothers of the illegitimate African children of Jesse Jackson and Kweezy Myfoome will get land grants in the thousands of acres.

Gigilo John was also supposed to get some land but so recent are the crimes of the colonial Portuguese against black Africans all up and down the coast that Terry Kerry didn't make the list. Her father may still be on several "wanted" lists.

And, of course, these are the kind of world leaders from whom Flipper John will seek council in the UN and, of course, in developing US land policy.

7 posted on 08/02/2004 1:53:42 PM PDT by Tacis
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This guy is a caricature of white fears, but really, he is just being honest about what reparations really is all about.


8 posted on 08/02/2004 1:54:43 PM PDT by KellyAdmirer
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To: Tacis

amen bttt


9 posted on 08/02/2004 1:58:41 PM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
"...myth that white farmers are carrying the economy because when Europeans set foot on Namibian soil, Namibians were already farming. " Sure, with pointy sticks.
10 posted on 08/02/2004 1:58:54 PM PDT by Gingersnap
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Send the Namibs guns and bullets so they can fix their own tyrants just like we did. Freedom is a messy process and the sooner they get started the better off they'll be.


11 posted on 08/02/2004 1:59:32 PM PDT by PeterFinn
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To: CzarNicky; Ironfocus; Clive

I wasn't aware that he had AIDS but oh how I wish it were true. It's not nice to wish death on people but too bad. When I see withered babies with AIDS, I think he should be the one weighing sixty pounds riddled with AIDS not an innocent little infant.


12 posted on 08/02/2004 2:00:15 PM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Tailgunner Joe; blam; Cincinatus' Wife; sarcasm; happygrl; Byron_the_Aussie; robnoel; GeronL; ...

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13 posted on 08/02/2004 2:32:40 PM PDT by Clive
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Another African country rapidly moving from the late 18th century to the early 14th century.


14 posted on 08/02/2004 2:39:54 PM PDT by spectre
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To: Clive

Clive,

Can you give us any history of Namibia and what farming was being done by indigenous people ?

Yes, I know I'm being lazy but you've shown historical knowledge.

Thanks,

jimt


15 posted on 08/02/2004 2:42:15 PM PDT by jimt
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To: jimt; Ironfocus

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/africa/namibia/history.htm

IF had posted a nice historical outline before but I didn't save it. Hope he's around. Sure there was farming, but there's farming to feed families and then there's commercial farming which is entirely different. I don't know about Namibia so much but in other colonial countries blacks were barred from commercial farming. Now it's different. Now no one will be farming unless the socialist run government decrees it soon enough.


16 posted on 08/02/2004 2:58:53 PM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: Jack Black

Countdown to starvation.


17 posted on 08/02/2004 3:05:30 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: Travis McGee

Kapenda should be asked by visiting TV reporters whether he will publicly and fully accept responsibility for what he's doing. Just another idiot land-grab with great appeal for the uneducated who will be unable or unwilling to grasp that the first steps are being taken in the direction of starvation and economic ruin.
Numerous leaders of African countries have told us in no uncertain terms that they refuse to have their way of life "dictated" by us. Pity, really. If they did, their people might eat more regularly - and have all those seeds and dams that charities are constantly asking us to subscribe for and which those inept governments should have provided decades ago.
I'm still baffled as to why Julius Nyerere (whose "youth wing" also resorted to unpleasant methods of "persuasion") was - and still is - regarded as one of Africa's leading Statesmen. Never a particularly wealthy country it was at least comfortable for its inhabitants. But Nyerere nevertheless insisted on implementing outmoded Soviet-Union style agricultural systems which the Russkies had already been forced to abandon as useless, and drove Tanzania into a ranking in the top three of the world's poorest countries. Nobody ever blitzed the man.


18 posted on 08/02/2004 5:27:41 PM PDT by Andika
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To: Tailgunner Joe
It seems like half the planet is descending back into barbarism and savagery these days.

I say fine. If that's what the Third Worlders want, who are we to deny them?

When we and our descendants are living 150 year life spans and are safe, rich and powerful in our advanced societies, there will still be honor killings, Marxist demagoguery, ethnic massacres, Sharia tyranny, and rampant disease in the Third World.

Remember, they are the descendants of those who chose to stay in their despot-infested homelands instead of striking out for a better life in America, as opposed to what our ancestors did.

19 posted on 08/02/2004 5:57:57 PM PDT by FierceDraka ("Party Before Country" - The New Motto of the Democratic Party)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

These aren't whites losing the land, are they?

Namibia was a German colony a long time ago; I didn't know there were any whites left there. If there are, who are they?


20 posted on 08/02/2004 7:53:39 PM PDT by Tuco Ramirez (Ideas have consequences.)
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