{"id":14341,"date":"2022-03-08T17:39:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T17:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/people-need-money-not-necessarily-land-geingob"},"modified":"2022-03-08T18:17:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T18:17:47","slug":"people-need-money-not-necessarily-land-geingob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/people-need-money-not-necessarily-land-geingob","title":{"rendered":"People need money, not necessarily land – Geingob"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>President Hage Geingob says that if wholesale poverty is addressed, many Namibians would not be demanding to own agricultural land. The Namibian head of state made these remarks this weekend during an interview with Qatari-based media network Al Jazeera, which covered many issues, including land and the recent oil discoveries in Namibia.<\/p>\n

At the heart of the interview was the land question. At present, about 90% of the productive land is in the hands of previously advantaged Namibians. \u201cLand doesn\u2019t immediately solve problems. President [Robert] Mugabe grabbed the land. Was it the solution? Today, land is being returned to some of the whites,\u201d Geingob said.<\/p>\n

According to him, the clause which protects property [including land] has hamstrung government\u2019s efforts to redistribute land. \u201cIt becomes very difficult under our Constitution just to grab the land [because of the property right clause],\u201d Geingob lamented.<\/p>\n

When asked why the clause has not been repealed, he said: \u201cSpare us. You have to go with time. It\u2019s true, land per se does not make you rich.\u201d He conceded that the government\u2019s resettlement programme has not yielded the desired outcomes.<\/p>\n

He continued, painting a narrative where \u201cif everybody is in towns, they have jobs, are they going to ask for land? If they are properly employed and they have income. It\u2019s a question of income. Poverty. If you address poverty wholesale, maybe it will help.\u201d<\/p>\n

All hope is not lost, he added. \u201cWe are addressing it in a proper way, where it is also fair to those whites whom we are reconciling with,\u201d he assured.<\/p>\n

However, Geingob made it clear that those with the economic muscle and those owning large tracts of land must meet the government halfway. \u201cThey must also reconcile with us at the economic level,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Geingob further downplayed the hype around oil discoveries in Namibia that are projected to bring in billions in investments, saying \u201cthe oil is not ours\u201d Asked how the discovery of oil would help transform Namibia\u2019s teetering economy, he took a wait-and-see approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirstly, it\u2019s not our oil. Money is going to go out to those who discovered it. [But] we\u2019ve got our royalties and so on. So, it will not be a big thing. We have gold, as you are saying. We don\u2019t see [a] big difference. It just goes out in raw form. Its value is added outside. Jobs are created outside and technology transfer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Last month, the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia announced that it has discovered light oil at the Graff-1 deep-water exploration well located in the Orange Basin, some 270 kilometres away from the diamond mining town of Oranjemund, along with its partners Shell Namibia Upstream BV and Qatar<\/p>\n

Energy. \u201cOil has been a curse in many countries. And since we are the last ones to get it, since we are talking with those that are involved as I have done, as equals, we hope that we are going to have a win-win situation,\u201d the president said, adding that transparency and accountability will be key ingredients in Namibia\u2019s oil journey.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Namibia. President Hage Geingob says that if wholesale poverty is addressed, many Namibians would not be demanding to own agricultural land. The Namibian head of state made these remarks this weekend during an interview with Qatari-based media network Al Jazeera, which covered many issues, including land and the recent oil discoveries in Namibia. 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