Leaders must act on Farm Heichas now

Disgruntled Native writes:

AR Movement, we at Vaalgras wholeheartedly support your tireless efforts to create and/or advocate for the landless minorities, to get back even a part of our ancestral land.

We have a serious problem with Farm Heichas that was acquired to expand the traditional communal area of Vaalgras, but only a few elite and a small coterie of the deposed leadership are benefiting, which is wrong.

That is what we are fighting for and I can tell you that numbered are those days that we will also forcefully move into Heichas if the matter is not resolved amicably in the best interest of peace, justice and tranquility.

I am not admiring some chiefs, traditional leaders and community leaders, who do not have any vision and/or initiative to bring socio-economic development or go and demand it from the Government for their subjects, but who are instead competing for the little that comes on a silver plate.

This is not good and people and leaders should know their Constitutional rights and freedoms. There are things that one can expect from a Government to give you, as opposed to some that one should demand from a Government.

The other thorn in the eye is that they want to take the fencing material to the controversial Farm Heichas to go and rehabilitate the camps there. This farm was purchased by the Government a few years ago to extend the traditional farming area of Vaalgras. However, only a few elite close to the Traditional Authority and in their favour are benefiting from the farm. All this mess was created by the former Lands Minister, Hon. Alpheus !Naruseb, who played political cards with community interest.

The deposed leadership should have stopped any effort, after the probe by the //Kharas Land Board has declared that the Ram Camp in fact belongs to the community. What the current removing of the fence in essence means, is that the Traditional Authority is busy stealing the assets of the community and have plans to take it to Heichas, which, according to their shortsightedness, is their private property. The Head of State and the Lands Minister are sitting on a time bomb, if they cannot resolve this matter amicably.

As we all know very well the liberation struggle was about land and there were so many public outcries about land and a land conference was scheduled, etc, which cost the Lands Deputy Minister his post.

We should take cognizance of the fact that Vaalgras is also situated in the //Kharas region, which the Deputy Minister was fighting for.

We have always been a peace-loving and law-abiding society, but let us not lose our patience, as this might have unspecified, serious repercussions. Do not blame us then, as this might provoke us to either go and break up the border fence of Farm Heichas in order for it to become an integral part of one Vaalgras.

Finally, we would be left with the option to take the deposed Traditional Authority to Court through the Office of the Ombudsman for infringing on our Constitutionally guaranteed fundamental basic human rights or either the Legal Assistance Centre.