The communal land reality cannot be wished away – Windhoek Observer

The communal land reality cannot be wished away – Windhoek Observer

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s call for traditional authorities to make communal land available for agriculture and ecotourism as part of the implementation of NDP6 sounds attractive on paper. It is the kind of statement that fits comfortably into a national development speech: traditional leaders provide land, entrepreneurs provide investment, government provides support, and rural communities prosper. But Namibia’s development challenges a…