Namibia Open Forum

13/09/2017

In view of the Landless People’s Movement conference on ancestral land rights that starts here tomorrow, I’d like to make a few…

27/11/2014

Namibia Polling Stations - Presidential & National Assembly Elections

26/11/2014

Nationwide Petition on Land and Housing in Namibia

With this nationwide petition, We, the landless and homeless Citizens of this country, call on the Right Honourable Prime Minister and all esteemed members of the National Assembly to debate at the opening of parliament in 2015 as a matter of utmost importance, the following Motion for an Amendment to the Constitution.

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Proposed amendment to the Constitution

The State shall henceforth guarantee a minimum of one piece of residential land to every citizen, no matter their circumstance, as their full and inalienable right as citizens of Namibia. Access to land to live on is the practical fulfilment of the founding values of the Republic, based on the ideals of justice, dignity and equality.

a) In accordance with this amendment, henceforth every Citizen of the Republic shall in due course, be allocated a suitable piece of residential land to live on as their fundamental Constitutional Right.

b) The Constitutional guarantee to land, as set down herewith, protects the inalienable right of every citizen to a home and a suitable piece of land to live on. Subject to this amendment, no citizen of the Republic shall be homeless or landless. This is the practical fulfilment of the promise of independence.

c) The size and location of such residential erven in urban and rural areas shall be based on the needs of the residents of any given area, factoring in the capacity of the local authorities, as well as the industrial requirements and natural resources of the particular regions, but such erven should at any rate measure no less than 500 square metres per household;

d) The order of priority in the allocation and the sizes of erven in towns and villages shall be subject to a consultative democratic process at local level, within the national legislative framework, to ensure the basic freedom of each Citizen to live on a piece of land as their own inalienable right and freedom under this Constitution.

e) All such land allocation by the State shall furthermore be subject to full public scrutiny and transparency.

f) Where local authorities are not able to carry the full cost of installing basic municipal services, including bulk water supply, electricity and sanitation services, to such residential erven as proscribed and legislated under this amendment, such services shall be made available at a rate not exceeding the actual cost of installing said municipal services.

* Endorsed by the DRC Concerned Group on 19 November 2014

More: https://medium.com//nationwide-petition-on-land-and-housing-in-namibia-9e35d379a1be

26/11/2014

Whereas we recognise the right to human dignity, the right to life and the pursuit of happiness as the founding principl…

26/11/2014

"I'm angry with you!" Pohamba tells NHE's Hailulu, for bringing SA firms "to build houses like this."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCQV67HJy_Q&feature=youtu.be

08/11/2014

City of Windhoek Mayor Agnes Kafula allegedly bought a plot in Kleine Kuppe at N$ 600,000 whilst the average price of 400 square metre plots sold at a recent auction in Academia Extension 1 was N$1.2 million.

Kafula purchased the plot when the original buyer returned the plot to the City because the buyer could not successfully conclude the transaction.

The embattled mayor is also said to be renting a residential property from the City of Windhoek while she continues to receive a generous housing allowance from the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration where she is employed full-time.

Kafula refused to comment on both issues referring all questions to the City of Windhoek spokesperson.

http://www.observer24.com.na/8-latest-news/3730-kafula-gets-plot-under-the-table

Kafula gets plot under the table Written by Rochelle Neidel on 07 November 2014. City of Windhoek Mayor Agnes Kafula allegedly bought a plot in Kleine Kuppe at N$ 600,000 whilst the average price of 400 square metre plots sold at a recent auction in Academia Extension 1 was N$1.2 million. Kafula p…

30/09/2014

A group of government workers who gathered at the Ministry of Labour in Swakopmund on Friday afternoon to prepare for a mass demonstration against the Namibian…

04/09/2014

04/09/2014

30/08/2014

Here is an short extract from the recently published book, Agony of Truth, the biography of a Namibian freedom fighter and relentless truth-teller, Samson Ndeikwila.

In this chapter Ndeikwila looks at events in Zambia in 1966, at around the time of the launch of the armed struggle. What do you make of his version of the history of the liberation struggle?