Vaalgras gets to grips with land reform

KEETMANSHOOP – The Vaalgras Traditional Authority in the Karas Region has started registering people in line with the Communal Land Reform Act of 2002.

The Act gives communal land boards, in conjunction with traditional authorities, the power to allocate customary land rights to people living or wishing to live in a certain traditional area. A senior councillor of the Vaalgras Traditional Authority, Johannes Boois, said in a programme of the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation’s Damara/Nama radio service that the process of allocating customary land rights had started on Monday.The process started in the area of the former Odendaal farms, and would slowly move down to the rest of the traditional Vaalgras area.Boois called on inhabitants to take the exercise seriously, as failure to register might have serious consequences.”There are deadlines and fines, and I encourage you all to co-operate,” he noted.He also invited people not currently living in Vaalgras, but wishing to do so, to register.The senior councillor urged inhabitants of Vaalgras not to fail to register only because they may not have the required N$75.”Come, and let us sit together and work out an amicable solution,” he said, adding that the exercise is not aimed at victimising people but, on the contrary, to empower them.- NampaA senior councillor of the Vaalgras Traditional Authority, Johannes Boois, said in a programme of the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation’s Damara/Nama radio service that the process of allocating customary land rights had started on Monday.The process started in the area of the former Odendaal farms, and would slowly move down to the rest of the traditional Vaalgras area.Boois called on inhabitants to take the exercise seriously, as failure to register might have serious consequences.”There are deadlines and fines, and I encourage you all to co-operate,” he noted.He also invited people not currently living in Vaalgras, but wishing to do so, to register.The senior councillor urged inhabitants of Vaalgras not to fail to register only because they may not have the required N$75.”Come, and let us sit together and work out an amicable solution,” he said, adding that the exercise is not aimed at victimising people but, on the contrary, to empower them.- Nampa