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Government appeals for aid to speed up land reform

    JOHANNESBURG

    The Namibian government appealed on Thursday for international help to speed land redistribution, but vowed not to copy farm seizures that have tipped Zimbabwe into economic and political chaos.

    Namibia has about 4,000 mostly white-owned commercial farms said it wanted urgent action on land reform. “The international community must not lose sight of the fact that the hunger of the Namibian people for land cannot go on unanswered indefinitely,” Information Permanent Secretary Mocks Shivute said in a statement.

    “This is an endeavour towards which the international community, and the British government in particular, have a special obligation to help the Namibian government in consolidating the concept of willing seller, willing buyer,” he added. Namibia’s main opposition party has also demanded that Germany, the former colonial power, provide financial aid for land reform.

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