New members for lands tribunal

THE National Assembly this week approved a motion by the Minister of Lands and Resettlement to appoint members to the fifth Land Reform Advisory Commission.

They will serve a three-year term. The new members are Vincent Likoro, an agricultural expert, Penny Akwenye of the National Planning Commission, Sikunawa Negumbo, Senior Marketing Manager of the Meat Board, and Selma Nangulah-Lendelvo of the University of Namibia.The term of the previous members ended last month.In terms of the Agricultural Land Reform Act, the Commission consists of 16 members with the appointment of four members to be approved by Parliament.Twelve members are appointed by the Lands Minister.The other new members are Frans Tsheehama, Permanent Secretary in the Lands Ministry, Hannu Shipena, Undersecretary in the same Ministry, and his colleague Dr Nashilongo Shivute, Sophia Kasheeta of the Agriculture Ministry, Tousy Namiseb of the Justice Ministry, Regan Mwazi, Marketing Manager of AgriBank, Janine van der Merwe of the Namibia Agricultural Union (NAU), Kai-Dieter Rumpf (NAU), Phintile Davids of the Namibian National Farmers Union (NNFU), Boniface Mokhatu, former NNFU executive member, Alfred Angula, who is the Secretary General of the Namibia Farmworkers Union, (Nafwu) and Rosaline Gorases, a front office manager at Hotel Heinitzburg, and also a Nafwu member.Deputy Lands Minister Isak Katali also requested the House to approve the appointment of the five members of the Lands Tribunal, a body that deals with disputes regarding the prices of farms the Lands Ministry wants to buy from a commercial farmer.The new members are Vincent Likoro, an agricultural expert, Penny Akwenye of the National Planning Commission, Sikunawa Negumbo, Senior Marketing Manager of the Meat Board, and Selma Nangulah-Lendelvo of the University of Namibia.The term of the previous members ended last month.In terms of the Agricultural Land Reform Act, the Commission consists of 16 members with the appointment of four members to be approved by Parliament.Twelve members are appointed by the Lands Minister.The other new members are Frans Tsheehama, Permanent Secretary in the Lands Ministry, Hannu Shipena, Undersecretary in the same Ministry, and his colleague Dr Nashilongo Shivute, Sophia Kasheeta of the Agriculture Ministry, Tousy Namiseb of the Justice Ministry, Regan Mwazi, Marketing Manager of AgriBank, Janine van der Merwe of the Namibia Agricultural Union (NAU), Kai-Dieter Rumpf (NAU), Phintile Davids of the Namibian National Farmers Union (NNFU), Boniface Mokhatu, former NNFU executive member, Alfred Angula, who is the Secretary General of the Namibia Farmworkers Union, (Nafwu) and Rosaline Gorases, a front office manager at Hotel Heinitzburg, and also a Nafwu member.Deputy Lands Minister Isak Katali also requested the House to approve the appointment of the five members of the Lands Tribunal, a body that deals with disputes regarding the prices of farms the Lands Ministry wants to buy from a commercial farmer.