Land reform to boost black ownership in Namibia

Namibia's president Hage Geingob called for a change to the constitution to allow the government to expropriate land and redistribute it to the majority black population.

The country wants to transfer 43 percent, or 15m hectares of its arable agricultural land, to previously disadvantaged blacks by 2020. At the end of 2015, 27 percent has been redistributed, according to the Namibia Agriculture Union.

Namibia, which was ruled by colonial Germany and then apartheid South Africa until 1990, has …
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