Namibia: Mass Housing's Biggest Casualty

19 September 2014

IN THE 1980s, as Namibia was painstakingly inching towards national independence and the apartheid regime was coming to terms with the fact that oppressing people was unsustainable, shacks began to spring up in open areas, especially in Windhoek.

By the mid-1990s, the mushrooming of poor people's homes, which we commonly refer to as kambashus, had become more than an eyesore. They were evidence of a painful reality - that independent Namibia would usher in growing problems and not only prosperity.

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