Oxfam Public Affairs Report

Namibia is one of the richest countries in Africa – yet most Namibians live in extreme poverty. For twenty years the country has been illegally occupied by South Africa. Twenty years in which the apartheid system has caused massive misery and deprivation amongst the majority of Namibians: while South African and foreign economic interests have […]

Whoever owns the land also holds power. In the Third World the poor do not always have their own land. Oxfam, in its support for the poor overseas, increasingly has to face the problems of land tenure, problems which have to be overcome if the poor are really to escape from their poverty.