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Namibia: Unmasking the ‘whitenisation’ of land: The myth of post-colonial neutrality in South Africa and Namibia – News

Namibia: Unmasking the ‘whitenisation’ of land: The myth of post-colonial neutrality in South Africa and Namibia – News

Africa Links 24 with Gerson Shikukumwa
Published on 2025-11-02 07:46:54

More than three decades after the formal fall of colonial and apartheid regimes, land remains stubbornly white in its ownership, its meaning, and its power.

DEVICES FOR FORGETTING

The silence of constitutions, the diplomacy of commemorations, and the politeness of post-independence governments mask a violent continuity, a continuity that shouts: The land question was never answered. In South Africa and Namibia, the myth of post-colonial neutrality has become the grandest deception of…

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