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The Namibian
Mon 12 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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NEWS - NAMIBIA
| 2013-08-12
Govt mulls new resettlement criterion
Luqman Cloete
THE government is in the process of introducing a new resettlement farm allocation criterion to cater for the needs of the poor.
The Deputy Minister of Lands and Resettlement, Theo Diergaardt, made the announcement when responding to concerns expressed by traditional authorities over the point scoring resettlement criterion which they claimed disadvantages the poor since it targets the literate, the financially stable, the employed and those with a farming background.
Expressing gratitude to the traditional authorities for pin-pointing the shortcomings of the point scoring criterion, Diergaardt remarked: “This gives us more energy to work with speed on the revision of the criterion to respond to the needs of the communities. The development of a Social Welfare Resettlement Criteria that will cater for the needs of the poor is also at an advanced stage.”
Diergaardt pledged that his ministry will now put up a strategy that shall witness the finalisation and the implementation of the new resettlement allocation criterion.
He said the ministry will discuss, for consideration, a proposal by the traditional authorities to convene a second land conference which will review resolutions taken during the 1991 land conference.
Diergaardt also said his ministry had agreed to extend, indefinitely, the communal land registration deadline initially set for end of February 2014 as requested by the traditional authorities.
He also revealed that the five traditional authorities in //Karas Region - the !Aman, Bondelswart, Blouwes, Orlam and /Hai-/Khaua - have called on the ministry to ensure that proper care is taken of resettlement farms and that there is regular communication with traditional chiefs on land matters, control of illegal occupation and unlawful movement in communal areas.
The traditional authorities also called for the control of farm prices, the enforcement of the prohibition of dual grazing, a resettlement allocation criteria which caters for the poor and the timeously issuance of communal land leasehold right certificates.
luqman@namibian.com.na
The Deputy Minister of Lands and Resettlement, Theo Diergaardt, made the announcement when responding to concerns expressed by traditional authorities over the point scoring resettlement criterion which they claimed disadvantages the poor since it targets the literate, the financially stable, the employed and those with a farming background.
Expressing gratitude to the traditional authorities for pin-pointing the shortcomings of the point scoring criterion, Diergaardt remarked: “This gives us more energy to work with speed on the revision of the criterion to respond to the needs of the communities. The development of a Social Welfare Resettlement Criteria that will cater for the needs of the poor is also at an advanced stage.”
Diergaardt pledged that his ministry will now put up a strategy that shall witness the finalisation and the implementation of the new resettlement allocation criterion.
He said the ministry will discuss, for consideration, a proposal by the traditional authorities to convene a second land conference which will review resolutions taken during the 1991 land conference.
Diergaardt also said his ministry had agreed to extend, indefinitely, the communal land registration deadline initially set for end of February 2014 as requested by the traditional authorities.
He also revealed that the five traditional authorities in //Karas Region - the !Aman, Bondelswart, Blouwes, Orlam and /Hai-/Khaua - have called on the ministry to ensure that proper care is taken of resettlement farms and that there is regular communication with traditional chiefs on land matters, control of illegal occupation and unlawful movement in communal areas.
The traditional authorities also called for the control of farm prices, the enforcement of the prohibition of dual grazing, a resettlement allocation criteria which caters for the poor and the timeously issuance of communal land leasehold right certificates.
luqman@namibian.com.na
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