Green Schemes

12 Sep

Don’t play political football with land issues

ObserverNational News, OpinionsAgribusdev, Carl Schlettwein, Don’t play political football with land issues, Green Schemes

The Green Schemes that were touted as Namibia’s blueprint to food self-sufficiency has failed and the government is now looking at a different management model to continue its strategy to make Namibia produce what its people consume. The company created in 2011 to run 11 Green Schemes, the Agricultural Business Development Agency, experienced serious governance, financial and operational deficiencies. In addition, the running of the Green Scheme according to the Minister of Agriculture, who was moved there in the second term of the current President’s term, observed that there were institutional challenges in the administration of the schemes. According to…

30 Jun

Minister sets record straight on land ownership

ObserverNational NewsAct No 6 of 1996, Agricultural Commercial Land Reform Act, Carl Schlettwein, Green Schemes, Land Bill, Minister sets record straight on land ownership

Martin Endjala No Namibian or foreigner can own land under freehold in communal land, The Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform categorically clarified in the National Assembly yesterday. A visibly disturbed, Carl Schlettwein said that misinformation has been circulating in the public domain about ownership of communal land by foreign nationals, including being fuelled by members of parliament. He explained that towns and cities within communal land are demarcated and surveyed and after proclamation are no longer part of the communal set-up and property can be owned there. However, Green Schemes that are also demarcated and proclaimed for agricultural…