Chinese want 10 000ha for tobacco plantation in Namibia

Suspended Swapo youth politician Job Amupanda is heading for a fresh clash with government over the proposed sale of 10 000 hectares of forestland to a Chinese company – Namibia Oriental Tobacco cc.

The Chinese company plans to establish a tobacco and maize plantation in Katima Mulilo.

Amupanda said yesterday his group of youth land activists, under the banner of the ‘Affirmative Repositioning’ campaign, will soon serve government with an official objection letter expressing their displeasure over plans to sell off land “equal to ten football fields” to the Chinese.

“It cannot be correct to award land to the Chinese, when Namibians seriously need land. It cannot be correct that our most fertile land is used to produce drugs and not food,” said Amupanda.

He said it is alarming that government is distributing land in villages to foreigners…

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