Namibia: 'We Will Change the Law and Take the Land'

Landless People's Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi says his party will introduce a radical land reform programme to address the inequalities created by the apartheid South African administration, if elected to power.

Swartbooi said the current law prohibits the government from taking or expropriating land for the purposes of redistributing it to the landless, but the LMP government will amend such laws to make sure that "our people have the land to be able to feed themselves".

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