Namibia: Ancestral Land Claims Against the Law

Farm Marburg — The Minister of Lands and Resettlement Alfeus !Naruseb has urged traditional leaders to stop demanding ancestral land, as Namibian laws do not make provision for such claims.

!Naruseb was responding to demands made by Chief Ananias Soroseb of #Arebeb and the Soroseb Traditional Authority during a meeting for the handing over of allotment letters to resettled beneficiaries of the government resettlement farm at Marburg.

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