Figure 1 Namibia Land Tenure (1990) 2GRAPPLING WITH LAND REFORM IN PASTORAL NAMIBIA

It is often asserted in Namibia that the war of independence was fought over land. More than half of the agriculturally usable land in the country is occupied by some 4,200 commercial farmers, mainly white; the rest provides a home and, in varying degrees, a source of subsistence for about 120,000 black rura