Editing History of Namibia (section)

=== Land reform ===
One of SWAPO's policies, that had been formulated long before the party came into power, was [[land reform]]. Namibia's colonial and [[Apartheid]] past had resulted in a situation where about 20 percent of the population owned about 75 percent of all the land.
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Land was supposed to be redistributed mostly from the white minority to previously landless communities and ex-combatants. The land reform has been slow, mainly because Namibia's constitution only allows land to be bought from farmers willing to sell. Also, the price of land is very high in Namibia, which further complicates the matter.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} [[Squatting in Namibia|Squatting]] occurs when internal migrants move to the cities and live in [[informal settlements]].<ref name="Rogerson">{{cite journal |last1=Rogerson |first1=C. M. |title=Aspects of urban management in Windhoek, Namibia |journal=Urban Forum |date=March 1990 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=29–47 |doi=10.1007/BF03036525|s2cid=153889189 }}</ref>

President Sam Nujoma has been vocal in his support of [[Zimbabwe]] and its president [[Robert Mugabe]]. During the land crisis in Zimbabwe, where the government confiscated white farmers' land by force, fears rose among the white minority and the western world that the same method would be used in Namibia.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Alden|first1=Chris|last2=Anseeuw|first2=Ward|date=8 July 2016|title=The Gathering Storm? Namibia and the Land Question|url=https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/11693|journal=2nd International Conference on Wars and Violent Conflicts in Africa|access-date=29 April 2020|archive-date=21 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210621081755/https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/11693|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Congolese soldier.jpg|thumb|right|125px|A Congolese rebel during the [[Second Congo War]], 2001.]]