{"id":202238,"date":"2025-07-12T02:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T00:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-new-land-bill-promises-major-changes-for-local-land-ownership\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T02:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T00:26:16","slug":"namibia-new-land-bill-promises-major-changes-for-local-land-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-new-land-bill-promises-major-changes-for-local-land-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: New Land Bill Promises Major Changes for Local Land Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform, Dr Inge Zaamwani, has formally given notice to introduce a far-reaching new land bill in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The anticipated legislation aims to consolidate and update existing laws, addressing critical issues surrounding communal and commercial agricultural land, with a strong focus on equitable access and sustainable management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Zaamwani&#8217;s notice, delivered on Thursday in Parliament, signals that she will move the motion to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507110357.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>The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform, Dr Inge Zaamwani, has formally given notice to introduce a far-reaching new land bill in the National Assembly. The anticipated legislation aims to consolidate and update existing laws, addressing critical issues surrounding communal and commercial agricultural land, with a strong focus on equitable access and sustainable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202239,"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":[258,256,7292,6122,7823,7373,4706,724,257,12866,9343,254],"class_list":["post-202238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-land","tag-local","tag-major","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-ownership","tag-promises","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/202238","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=202238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}