{"id":193586,"date":"2025-03-15T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T05:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-parliament-says-no-to-tabling-communal-land-bill-last-minute\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T05:10:12","slug":"namibia-parliament-says-no-to-tabling-communal-land-bill-last-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-parliament-says-no-to-tabling-communal-land-bill-last-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Parliament Says No to Tabling Communal Land Bill Last Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Lawmakers have stood up against agriculture, water and land reform minister Calle Schlettwein after he tabled the communal land bill at &#8220;the last moment&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Official opposition leader McHenry Venaani and Swapo backbencher Tjekero Tweya oppose Schlettwein&#8217;s tabling of the bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The bill includes the establishment of communal land boards and a development fund to prohibit the acquisition of commercial agricultural land by foreign nationals and to regulate the leasing of commercial agricultural land by&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140410.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers have stood up against agriculture, water and land reform minister Calle Schlettwein after he tabled the communal land bill at &#8220;the last moment&#8221;. Official opposition leader McHenry Venaani and Swapo backbencher Tjekero Tweya oppose Schlettwein&#8217;s tabling of the bill. The bill includes the establishment of communal land boards and a development fund to prohibit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7292,19143,6122,16889,4706,724,257,2412,254,50869],"class_list":["post-193586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-communal","tag-land","tag-minute","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tabling"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}