WINDHOEK – Land activist leader Job Amupanda is pleased with Swakopmund Municipality’s quick response to the mass land application, as community members of the town who applied for land through the Affirmative Repositioning (AR) would be receiving their acknowledgement letters from the municipality tomorrow.
In Swakopmund alone, 3 756 people in February applied for land under AR’s land campaign, with the latest delelopment making it the first town to finalise the land applications within the time frame given.
“Swakopmund management made history, demonstrating good leadership and setting a good example that should be emulated by all other towns. With this co-operation the land issue may be solved sooner than expected,” expressed Amupanda.
A total 50 157 people countrywide applied for land through AR.
“All applicants are urged to collect their application letters at Tamariskia Town Hall on Tuesday from 08h00-16h00 and must bring along their identity cards as no acknowledgement letter will be issued without any identity documents,” said Amupanda detailing how applicants can obtain their acknowledgement letters.
He added that those that did not participate in the nationwide mass application have themselves to blame, “they opted to be misled and choose to keep renting and sing for politicians that have more than one house”.
Urging the Namibian youths not “surrender, equivocate and compromise but rather they should take a vision of Namibia reborn, a Namibian in which everyone will benefit”.
Last week, the land activists Amupanda, Dimbulukeni Nauyoma and George Kambala vowed not to retreat on their plans to occupy any unoccupied land countrywide come July 31, if no solution has been found regarding the land issue.
July 31, is the deadline set by the land activists since November 21 last year when they gave municipalities nine months to look at the land issue, which is exorbitant, following speculations of favouritism and corruption by some municipality official who offered land to well-connected and politically aligned people.