After reading the newspaper of December 8 2006 I asked myself lots of questions about this issue.

And later I got one answer to all these questions and it is simply that the related Ministry follows political considerations and the interests of some ethnic groups.

The reason I say so is that it is not the first time this happens to the San communities.

In the first instance the Deputy Minister of Lands visited the N#a Jaqna conservancy (in Tsumkwe area) and wanted to introduce small-scale farms in the conservancy.

Now my question is: Was it not the same Ministry together with Ministry of Environment and Tourism who decided/agreed that this piece of land should be proclaimed a conservancy? Secondly, they want to set up small-scale farms in West Caprivi.

You see even these area, such as Omega 1, Omega 3, Chetto and Mut'chiku - where the San (Khwe) people live - they are talking about are wildlife parks and how on earth do they think that people can farm in this area? Don't they think people will have problems with the elephants roaming around freely? These two areas are where the San are living.

The answer to the equation is that the line Ministry serves the interests of the farmers expelled from the Kavango Region.

Each and every citizen of Namibia knows from which ethnic group those farmers come.

The same applies to the San - each and every citizen knows that the San and the Ovahimba are the most marginalised communities in Namibia.

A few days ago there was an article written by the director of Survival International regarding the indigenous people, I think the headline was 'Namibia should be ashamed'.

Instead of working on this, they are still trying to rip off the land from the marginalised people and make life more difficult for them.

This people already do not have anything e.g.

no land.

The land belonged to them at first but they lost it because of their way of living and now if they introduce small-scale farms there will be lot of problems, so my advice is to leave the San alone because they deserve the only pieces of land they have to regard as their own.

Curzon Nanseb Via e-mail

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