Neither Here nor There: Indigeneity, Marginalisation and Land Rights in Post-Independence Namibia

Title: Neither Here nor There
Subtitle: Indigeneity, Marginalisation and Land Rights in Post-Independence Namibia
Editors: Willem Odendaal; Wolfgang Werner
Publisher: Land, Environment and Development Project, LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTRE
Windhoek, Namibia 2020
ISBN 9789994561582 / ISBN 78-99945-61-58-2
Softcover, 17 x 24 cm, 394 pages

About: Neither Here nor There: Indigeneity, Marginalisation and Land Rights in Post-Independence Namibia

In 2018 the Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) received a research grant from the United States Department of State, the purpose of which was to support the LAC to develop a series of concept chapters, with a comprehensive and updated examination of the land rights of indigenous and marginalised communities in Namibia. This grant could not have come at a more opportune moment. Firstly, 2018 marked the 21st birthday of the LAC’s Land, Environment and Development Project (LEAD). Since its inception, LEAD has supported the land and natural resource rights of Namibia’s indigenous and marginalised communities through legal advice and representation, research, advocacy, capacity building and litigation.

Thus, the LAC as a public interest law firm is well placed to evaluate the current state of Namibia’s indigenous and marginalised communities’ land rights. Secondly, the Second National Land Conference was scheduled to take place in 2018, hence the LAC’s intention was to produce a publication that would help to maintain the momentum generated by the conference discussions. Specific resolutions were taken at the end of the conference, to which policy makers are compelled to give effect. We are hopeful that this publication will be of use to those tasked with the implementation of the 2018 Land Conference resolutions.Northern and Southern Africa.

Content: Neither Here nor There: Indigeneity, Marginalisation and Land Rights in Post-Independence Namibia

Land reform in Namibia: Beyond 2018
by Samuel Amoo
The economic viability of emerging commercial farmers under the resettlement programme
by Selma Lendelvo, Martin Shapi and Clever Mapaure
The legacy of Namibia’s landless generational farm-working community
by James Suzman
Urban land and life in Namibia’s informal settlements
by Rune Larsen and Gabriel Augustus
From colonial land dispossession to the Etosha and Mangetti West land claim – Hai||om struggles in independent Namibia
by Ute Dieckmann
Recognition of ancestral land claims for indigenous peoples and marginalised communities in Namibia: A case study of the Hai||om litigation
by Willem Odendaal, Jeremie Gilbert and Saskia Vermeylen
Ancestral land claims: Why bygones can’t be bygones
by John Nakuta
The fencing issue in Namibia: a case study in Omusati Region
by Rose-Mary Kashululu and Paul Hebinck
“Land and resource rights in the Tsumkwe Conservancies – Nyae Nyae and N‡a Jaqna
by Jennifer Hays and Robert Hitchcock
Access to land and security of tenure for the San people in Namibia: the case of Okongo Constituency in Ohangwena Region
by Romie Nghitevelekwa, Fenny Nakanyete and Selma Lendelvo
Land and resource rights of the Khwe in Bwabwata National Park
by Gertrud Boden
Land, resource and governance conflicts in Kunene Region involving conservancies
by Wolfgang Werner
Understanding Damara / ‡N khoen and ||Ubun indigeneity and marginalisation in Namibia
by Sian Sullivan and Welhemina Suro