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Journal articles on the topic "Land reform - Namibia"

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Adams, Martin E. "Options for land reform in Namibia." Land Use Policy 10, no. 3 (July 1993): 191–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0264-8377(93)90014-2.

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Werner, W. "AN OVERVIEW OF LAND REFORM IN NAMIBIA." Agrekon 38, sup001 (May 1999): 314–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03031853.1999.9524924.

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Melber, Henning. "Colonialism, Land, Ethnicity, and Class: Namibia after the Second National Land Conference." Africa Spectrum 54, no. 1 (April 2019): 73–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002039719848506.

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Since independence in March 1990, the unequal distribution and ownership of land as a leftover of colonial-era dispossession and appropriation has been a major issue of sociopolitical contestation in Namibia. This article summarises the structural colonial legacy and the efforts made towards land reform. Reference points are the country’s first national land reform conference in 1991 and the second national land reform conference in October 2018. The analysis points to the contradictory factors at play, seeking to contextualise land reform in between the colonial legacy of racial discrepancies and ethnicity as well as class, as more contemporary influencing factors.
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Amoo, S. K. "Towards Comprehensive Land Tenure Systems and Land Reform in Namibia." South African Journal on Human Rights 17, no. 1 (January 2001): 87–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02587203.2001.11827618.

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Baporikar, Neeta. "Stakeholder Approach for Land Reform Programme to Enhance Access and Equity." International Journal of Political Activism and Engagement 8, no. 2 (April 2021): 40–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijpae.2021040103.

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Globally, the land is a valuable resource. Many years of colonialism resulted in the majority of the population having no access to agricultural land especially in many African countries, and Namibia is no exception. Today, land access and equity are burning issues. Hence, adopting a qualitative research approach and data collection with a non-random purposive sample of 60 respondents' through questionnaires, interviews, and secondary data to investigate how the stakeholder approach can facilitate the effective implementation of the land reform program to enhance access and equity in Namibia. The paper examines challenges faced in implementing the land reform program, determine the level of stakeholder participation, and develop strategies based on the stakeholder approach for improved implementation of the land reform program. Findings reflect that stakeholders felt that the government is not consulting them enough and that is the reason why the land reform process has failed to enhance access and equity and is lacks the pace to the detriment of the landless majority.
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Mufune, P. "Land Reform Management in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe." International Journal of Rural Management 6, no. 1 (April 2010): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097300521100600101.

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Gargallo, Eduard. "Beyond Black and White: Ethnicity and Land Reform in Namibia." Politique africaine 120, no. 4 (2010): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/polaf.120.0153.

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Hongslo, Eirin, and Tor A. Benjaminsen. "Turning Landscapes into ‘Nothing’: A Narrative on Land Reform in Namibia." Forum for Development Studies 29, no. 2 (December 2002): 321–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2002.9666210.

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Kariuki, Samuel. "Political compromise on land reform: A study of South Africa and Namibia." South African Journal of International Affairs 14, no. 1 (June 2007): 99–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10220460709545485.

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Falk, Thomas, Michael Kirk, Dirk Lohmann, Bertus Kruger, Christian Hüttich, and Richard Kamukuenjandje. "The profits of excludability and transferability in redistributive land reform in central Namibia." Development Southern Africa 34, no. 3 (January 13, 2017): 314–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0376835x.2016.1269633.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Land reform - Namibia"

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Geingob, Phillipus. "Land reform process in Namibia: a study of the impact of land reform on beneficiaries in Otjozondjupa region, Namibia." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=init_6034_1180443195.

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The Government of Namibia has been responsible for facilitating the resettlement of destitute and landless people since its independence in 1990. The provision of resettlement is a very contentious issue in Namibia. The bulk of land is still in the hands of minority white communities and foreigners. It is against this background that the study examined the land reform process in Namibia. The objectives of the study was to investigate to what extent the land reform process has been successful in one of Namibia's regions, and what factors are relevant for success, and identify ways to improve the process
to examine the original government objective/policy and how/why it changed over time.

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Okafor, Uzochukwu Godsway Ojo. "Computer-assisted analysis of Namibian land reform policy." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2982.

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Thesis (MPA (School of Public Management and Planning))--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.
The focus of this research is on the analysis of Namibian land reform policy. The primary objective is to identify the prevailing values behind the land reform, formulate precise objectives that reflect the inherent values, and analyse the existing options with a view to identifying the delivery mechanism(s) most appropriate to meeting the land reform objectives and to delivering the desired outcomes in a sustainable way. Namibia inherited skewed land ownership. The land reform debate focuses mainly on the redistribution of commercial farms, which are mostly owned by whites, and the tenure reform in the communal areas. The Namibian land reform rests on a tripartite scheme: Resettlement, Affirmative Action Loan Scheme (AALS) and the Development of Communal Areas (DCA). These approaches are governed by a number of policies and laws. Land reform is a very complex and emotion-laden phenomenon with multiple dimensions, which include moral, historical, social, economic, environmental and technical aspects. The land question in Namibia is a race question. While politicians argue publicly that land reform is important to boost the economy and reduce poverty, in reality the focus is on having more black Namibians own more of Namibia’s commercial farmland. This discrepancy between public pronouncements and actual motive may be responsible for the lack of clear objectives for the land reform policy. The analysis of Namibian land reform policy will require formulation of precise objectives. Because Namibia is the driest country south of the Sahara, sustainable management of land is imperative. Finding ways of achieving a politically acceptable racial balance of commercial land ownership and sustainable utilisation of redistributed land within an optimum time span is a challenge. The formulation of Namibian land reform policy was not preceded by any attempt at prior policy analysis. An ad hoc and crisis-management approach prevailed. A policy issue analysis approach has been used in this study. It is based primarily on a literature review augmented with questionnaires and interviews with selected key stakeholders. A stratified sampling technique was applied in the selection of the key stakeholders. The three groups identified were the policy-formulation and implementation group, the commercial farmers and the emerging farmers. VISA, a multi-criteria decision analysis package, was used to analyse and compare the three land reform approaches, while PolicyMaker software was used to analyse political actors and suggest strategies that can enhance the policy’s feasibility. The literature review and questionnaires revealed that the objectives of the land reform policy include correcting the skewed ownership of commercial farmland to reflect the demography of Namibia, alleviating poverty and achieving social and economic equity for all citizens. The programme should be sociologically, economically and environmentally sustainable. Combining all these objectives as criteria for evaluation, VISA demonstrates that the affirmative action loan scheme has the greatest potential for meeting the objectives followed by resettlement and development of communal areas respectively. Using the PolicyMaker software, stakeholders were categorised into supporters, opponents and non-mobilised; opportunities and obstacles were identified and strategies devised to harness opportunities and diffuse opposition.
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Vermeulen, Sanet Elenor. "A Comparative Assessment of the Land Reform Programme in South Africa and Namibia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2159.

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This study first discusses, and ultimately compares, the land reform policies of both South Africa and Namibia, with special reference to the respective histories of land ownership. An overview of the two countries’ histories of colonial and segregationist policies are presented to provide the reader with insight into the racially unequal social, economic and political relations within the case studies concerned. The particular focus of this study falls on the legal frameworks and the policy developments of land restitution and the land redistribution policy programmes from the time of the transition to democracy. South Africa’s and Namibia’s policies are compared, highlighting the similarities and differences between the two. South Africa developed a wider land reform policy, which stands on three legs: land restitution, land redistribution and land tenure reform. The first, land restitution, has been prioritised by government and has thus far contributed the most to the progress of land reform. It may also be seen as the beginning of redistribution. Land tenure does not receive much attention in this study, but the land redistribution programme does. Progress to date has overall been slower than expected and other stumbling blocks such as ineffective extension services, bureaucratic ineptitude and ensuring the productive use of land are not focused on. Government recently indicated that it intends, and has also taken some steps, to speed up the lagging process of land reform through an increased use of expropriation. Great criticism against this was voiced by the commercial sector. South Africa is a constitutional democracy and attempts to redress the injustices of the past within a legal framework. Namibia seems to be progressing faster than South Africa in terms of its redistribution policy. One reason for this could be that the targets are more realistically set. It was decided that the restitution of ancestral land will not be followed (therefore, redistribution was not claims-based), but that all previously disadvantaged people will benefit from land redistribution. A land conference was held immediately after independence in 1991. Lately, however, momentum on the pursuit of its land reform policy seems to have subsided. The conclusion of this study indicates that although there are differences in the respective countries’ land reform policies, there are significant similarities. The debate between ‘equity’ and ‘production’ becomes even more important in the midst of world food price increases, a global financial crisis and the ever growing gap between the poor and the rich. More than a decade after the transition to democracy (amidst the chaotic land reform process in Zimbabwe), land and ownership remain a contentious issue in both countries.
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Mafune, Itani. "Common property regimes and land reform in Namibia : a case study of Skoonheid, Omaheke region." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13888.

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This dissertation is concerned with the question of local resource use. It explores this question and more specifically common property resource management regimes using Skoonheid Resettlement Project in the Omaheke Region in Namibia as a case study. This study was born out of a Retrospective Assessment of the Environmental Implications of Resettlement in Namibia, commissioned by the Namibian Programme to Combat Desertification (NAPCOD) through the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET).
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Hoaes, Ingrid Emmy. "Does post-settlement support play a role in the success of land reform? : the case of resettlement beneficiaries in Namibia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4093.

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Thesis ((MPhil (Sustainable Development Planning and Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research deals with post-settlement support in Namibia‟s land reform process. Post-settlement support (PSS) is seen as vital and critical in all land and agrarian reform processes, as can be told from experiences worldwide. Its absence or presence can have a number of consequences or successes in the whole process. PSS can be viewed as the “after care” to be provided by government to new farmers after resettling them. It could be in the form of financial support, extension services and maintenance of infrastructure as well as training services for the farmers. The paper deals with the current status of post-settlement support in the country for land a reform beneficiary, who provides PSS, if it is provided and how it is done. It further looks at perceptions and practices about land reform, in some regions of the world as well as in Namibia. The methodology used was through extensive literature review of policy documents, interviews with different stakeholders and two case studies, looking at beneficiaries of the land reform, specifically the national land resettlement programme beneficiaries. The paper found that there is definitely a link between the poor productivity and lack of PSS in Namibia‟s land reform process. PSS is not consistent; it is selected or sometimes randomly carried out. Most of the PSS programmes currently provided is not initiated by government but by donor agencies and Non-governmental organisations. There is no coordination between the different stakeholders such as the line ministries. The paper illustrates that choosing the correct beneficiaries of the land reform process is vital in achieving sustainable, land use and management, as well as equitable land redistribution in an arid Namibia.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsing handel oor ondersteuning wat hervestigde boere ontvang na vestiging. Die ondersteuning aan hervestigdes is krities en belangrik in alle fasette van grond en landbou hervormings prosesse. Die huidige wêreld verleen groot steun aan hierdie gevolgtrekking. Daarvoor hou die toepasing oftewel nie-toepasing van na-hervestigings ondersteuning groot risiko vir die sukses van die hele hervestigings proses. Hierdie tipe ondersteuning vir hervestigdes kan as 'n noodsaaklike na diens wat die staat kan lewer aan die nuwe grond eienaars. Sulke ondersteuning deur die staat kan verskeie vorms inneem. Dit kan geskied deur finansielle hulp oftewel landbou dienste wat ook die instandhouding van plaas infrastruktuur kan behels. In hierdie navorsing kyk ons na opvattings rakende hervestigings ondersteuining soos ervaar deur die hervestigdes. Die navorsing is gebaseer op literatuur van reg-oor die wereld aangaande hierdie vraag stuk. Ons het ook onderhoude gevoer met verskillende belanghebbendes met twee gevalle studies wat handel oor die ervarringe van hervestigdes. Die navorsing vind dat daar 'n definitiewe verband tussen swak produksie opbrengste en na-hervestiging ondersteuning is. Ons vind dat hierdie tipe ondersteuning ad hoc is met baie min koordinering deur die staat masjienery. Ons vind dat dit op die lange duur belangrik is om die regte mense te selekteer vir hervestiging programme, veral as in ag geneem word dat Namibie 'n taamlike droë land is.
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Hamrick, Ellie. "Enduring Injustice: Law, Memory, and Politics in Namibia's Genocide Reparations Movement." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1368187868.

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Mandimika, Prisca. "Namibia’s Land Redistribution Programme: A Case Study of Steinhausen (Okarukambe) Constituency in Omaheke Region." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8159.

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Magister Philosophiae (Land and Agrarian Studies) - MPhil(LAS)
As a means to assuage historical land inequities, resultant socio-economic disparities and poverty alleviation, the Namibian Government undertook to reform the land sector. Guided by the Constitution and the Resolutions of the 1991 Land Conference policy and legal framework, a fractured consensus is built on the rationale to redistribute land to a targeted group. Parallel to the reform agenda, systemic challenges to the resettlement process are growing amid questions on Government’s ability to respond to sustainable programme objectives embedded within land reforms. Literature coalesces on the issues of land-reform programmes having lost direction, being skewed in favour of a few, being biased towards commercial agriculture, and requiring review and re-configuration to be inclusive and to satisfy equity and povertyalleviation concerns. This study seeks to understand who has been benefitting from land reform by analysing the processes and procedures of identifying beneficiaries prioritised for land allocation, and institutional structures for implementation, while analysing how they produce and reproduce class differentiation and the attendent livelihood trajectories. Using qualitative research conducted in one case study site (Okarukambe constituency) the views of the smallscale farmers who benefitted were solicited. Additionally, the experiences and views of institutions and officials involved in land allocation at regional and national levels are taken into account. Theoretically the study draws from the livelihoods approach to find out the different categories of the small-scale farmers who have benefitted.
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Louw, Frikkie J. "Cadastral lease diagrams for resettlement farms in Namibia: 'digital orthophotos as an alternative to the current field surveying technique'." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2113.

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The Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation of Namibia is responsible for all land issues. The resettlement of landless farmers, of the previous disadvantaged groups, is one of the issues. The Agricultural (Commercial) Land Reform Act (Act 6 of 1995) applies to the commercial land parts of the country. Under this act the government of Namibia has the first option on the purchase of commercial farms when these are offered for sale. These purchased farms will then be used to resettle the landless farmers from the communal areas. These applicants may obtain a long-term lease over the purchased commercial farms. Long-term leases are legally required to be registered in the Deeds Office. A cadastral lease diagram is required for registration. The government, through the Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation, has bought approximately 130 farms for resettlement purposes. On June 2003 approximately 13 of these resettlement farms were surveyed and cadastral lease diagrams prepared for registration in the Deeds Office. The author argues that many factors have affected the slow progress of the resettlement in Namibia including the time required for the preparation of the cadastral lease diagram. The current field survey techniques, Total Stations or/and GPS, are very reliable, but are slow. The use of digital orthophotos has been shown to shorten the time to prepare the cadastral lease diagrams. The Author further argues that because digital orthophotos are available at the Surveyor-General's Office means, there are no cost implications. The cost of the cadastral lease diagrams by using digital orthophotos is only a third of the cost of using the current field survey techniques. Replacing current survey techniques with digital orthophotos or including the use of digital orthophotos, as a surveying technique would require the revision of the Land Survey Act (Act 33 of 1993) and the Survey Regulations, under section 5 of the said Land Survey Act - Government Notice No. 58 of 2002.
Thesis (M.Env.Dev.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2004.
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Mahuku, Darlington Ngoni. "External Donors, Domestic Political Institutions and Post-Colonial Land Reform: A Comparison of Zimbabwe and Namibia." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/1858.

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Land reform in Southern Africa has attracted a lot of attention from sovereign third world government and those of developed countries. This followed the invasion of commercial farms in Zimbabwe and has a bearing on Zimbabwe’s neighbours especially Namibia and South Africa. This paper examines why governments at times adhere to land reform within the rule of law and at times does not, resulting in strained donor-government relations. A comparison of government-donor relations in Zimbabwe and Namibia is explored. The crux of the argument is that land reform is damaging when the rule of law is flouted by governments. Strained relations are a result of ineffective agencies of restraint, lack of commitment by the governments, external donors and white commercial farmers to correct land injustices that came into existence as a result of settler colonialism.
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Books on the topic "Land reform - Namibia"

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Werner, Wolfgang. Land reform in Namibia: A bibliography. Windhoek: GIZ, 2014.

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1972-, Odendaal Willem, ed. Livelihoods after land reform: Namibia country report. Windhoek, Namibia: Land, Environment, and Development Project, Legal Assistance Centre, 2010.

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This land is my land!: Motions and emotions around land in Namibia. Windhoek: Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung, 2008.

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Adams, Martin. Grappling with land reform in pastoral Namibia. London: Overseas Development Institute, 1992.

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Werner, Wolfgang. Land reform in Namibia: The first seven years. Ausspannplatz, Windhoek, Namibia: Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 1997.

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Werner, Wolfgang. Land reform and poverty alleviation: Experiences from Namibia. Ausspannplatz, Windhoek, Namibia: Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2001.

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Adams, Fiona. The land issue in Namibia: An inquiry. Windhoek: Namibia Institute for Social and Economic Research, 1990.

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1972-, Odendaal Willem, Legal Assistance Centre (Namibia). Land, Environment, and Development Project., and Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit., eds. Kessl: A new jurisprudence of land reform in Namibia? Windhoek: Land, Environment, and Development Project of the Legal Assistance Centre, 2008.

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Permanent Technical Team on Land Reform (Namibia). Strategic options and action plan for land reform in Namibia. [Windhoek, Namibia]: Government of the Republic of Namibia, Ministry of Lands and Resettlement, the Permanent Technical Team on Land Reform, 2005.

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Biesele, Megan. Land issues in Nyae Nyae: A communal areas example in Namibia. Windhoek, Namibia: NNDFN, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "Land reform - Namibia"

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Suliman, Mohamed, John Cusworth, and Martin Adams. "5. Overview; Zimbabwe: Issues arising from the Land Resettlement Programme; Namibia: Land reform — who will be the beneficiaries?" In Land is Life, 83–106. Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom: Practical Action Publishing, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/9781780445274.005.

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"Land reform in Namibia: issues of equity and poverty." In Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization, 306–31. Routledge, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203962251-17.

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Chigbu, Uchendu E., and Peterina Sakaria. "Reflections toward a Responsible Fast-Track of Namibia’s Redistributive Land Reform." In Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions, 79–92. CRC Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003021636-10.

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Behr, Daniela, Roos Haer, and Daniela Kromrey. "What is a Chief without Land? Impact of Land Reforms on Power Structures in Namibia." In Decentralization, Democracy, and Development in Africa, 46–63. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351259521-4.

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