Namibia union threatens to seize farms

[dArKeR]

Windhoek - A black farm workers' union in Namibia threatened on Friday to seize white-owned farms by force in an angry response to a new farmers' organisation which has vowed to fight land expropriations in the southern African country.

President Sam Nujoma's government last month told 15 white farm owners to make an offer to sell their property to the state, the first move by the authorities to force the white farmers off their land.

"If the white colleagues do not want expropriation of land, we can always introduce a new method - which is taking the land without compensation and without sharing it with them, by force," said Alfred Angula, general secretary of the Namibia Farmworkers' Union.

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I've just got this feeling in my bones that America's CIA/NSA/DIA have used Africa for the last 40 years as a training/research/torture staging test area. Dominated by a white minority and no enforceable legal system... The Dark Side of the Force operated like Warlords out of Africa!

[jayavarman]

1. I would be surprised if that Mugabe-style BS went down

in Namibia.

From everything I've read Namibia seems like stable place.

[AP]

4. Namibia wants to copy Zimbabwe land reform because they see it as

working.

And it is.

And Namibia is right to copy it.

[jayavarman]

2. I would be surprised if that Mugabe-style BS went down

in Namibia.

From everything I've read Namibia seems like stable place.

[struggle4progress]

3. It looks like land reform is becoming a hot issue in Southern Africa

[AP]

5. By the way, Namibia was a colony until 1990, first of Germany than of...

...apartheid South Africa.

[bemildred]

6. "taking the land without compensation ..., by force"

Sounds almost like colonization. The Africans have finally
learned how to act like Europeans.

[AP]

7. Too bad that's not happening. They want to do it through law and courts.

But they find ONE union leader who doesn't speak for the government, and they blow his off the cuff remarks out of preportion.

Are we so unsophisticated that we can't recognize yellow journailism anymore?