A view on selling agricultural land
Town proclamations in agricultural areas in northern Namibia is regarded as development.
Established in 2004, Helao Nafidi, with a population of 19 000 people, has now attracted approximately 43 000 inhabitants, who came to destroy our agricultural resources and forced us to rely on Usave and OK Mini Market.
As the town expands, the town and village councils persuade residents living near the town to accept a few cents in compensation for selling their agricultural fields to the town or village council under the guise of development.
The practice is wrong because selling your land to them will backfire in the future, particularly for men, who are often held responsible for all household expenses. Any man who celebrates the expansion of a town in the region is cowardly and requires immediate psychiatric evaluation.
In ten years, all the residents who are currently selling their land will likely be charged N$3.00 to use the toilet, which will be constructed on the same land that your father sold to the council.
Imagine having to pay to use the toilet built on your father’s land, which he sold, and by that time, the money paid to him is exhausted.
A recent report stated that Namibians living in Angola should vacate the land at the Oshimolo cattle post and come back to Namibia with their animals. If the proposal is implemented by the Angolan government, many will suffer.
Youth in the north are failing to conduct a study that could be beneficial in securing the future of the next generation. Despite educated young men and women, they seem oblivious to the impending poverty in the region, such as in Helao Nafidi in the Ohangwena Region.
When the Boers' colonial era came to an end, black people began selling their land to white people, branding themselves as self-investors. This is just colonial re-cultivation in a different form.
Just imagine: men and women going into exile to fight for the land, only to return and sell it to the same people for a mere N$500 per hectare.
- Simeon Nghidini-tate Hamwaama is a master’s student in human resource management at the International University of Management.
Established in 2004, Helao Nafidi, with a population of 19 000 people, has now attracted approximately 43 000 inhabitants, who came to destroy our agricultural resources and forced us to rely on Usave and OK Mini Market.
As the town expands, the town and village councils persuade residents living near the town to accept a few cents in compensation for selling their agricultural fields to the town or village council under the guise of development.
The practice is wrong because selling your land to them will backfire in the future, particularly for men, who are often held responsible for all household expenses. Any man who celebrates the expansion of a town in the region is cowardly and requires immediate psychiatric evaluation.
In ten years, all the residents who are currently selling their land will likely be charged N$3.00 to use the toilet, which will be constructed on the same land that your father sold to the council.
Imagine having to pay to use the toilet built on your father’s land, which he sold, and by that time, the money paid to him is exhausted.
A recent report stated that Namibians living in Angola should vacate the land at the Oshimolo cattle post and come back to Namibia with their animals. If the proposal is implemented by the Angolan government, many will suffer.
Youth in the north are failing to conduct a study that could be beneficial in securing the future of the next generation. Despite educated young men and women, they seem oblivious to the impending poverty in the region, such as in Helao Nafidi in the Ohangwena Region.
When the Boers' colonial era came to an end, black people began selling their land to white people, branding themselves as self-investors. This is just colonial re-cultivation in a different form.
Just imagine: men and women going into exile to fight for the land, only to return and sell it to the same people for a mere N$500 per hectare.
- Simeon Nghidini-tate Hamwaama is a master’s student in human resource management at the International University of Management.
Comments
Namibian Sun
No comments have been left on this article