Groot Aub
| settlement Groot Aub Great Aub ( deu )
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750 (2017) |
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Namibia Khomas Windhoek Land |
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Geographical data
Geographic coordinates : -22.943258, 17.203066 Height : |
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Groot Aub (historically and in German Groß Aub ) is a settlement in Namibia with about 750 inhabitants (as of 2017). Groot Aub is located in the Khomas region and is the county seat of Windhoek-Land . It was incorporated in 2017.
Infrastructure
Groot Aub is about halfway between Windhoek and Rehoboth , with Windhoek about 56 km north and Rehoboth about 51 km south. Groot Aub itself is 7.5 kilometers east of the B1 national road . None of the streets in Groot Aub is paved to this day (as of July 2019). Most households have neither running water nor their own toilets. However, electricity is available in most cases.
In Groot Aub there is a police station, a hospital and a primary and a comprehensive school . But there is neither a garbage disposal nor significant shopping opportunities.
history
The settlement originated in the 1960s.
Most of the settlers who already settled in Groot Aub at this time came from the surrounding farms, as Groot Aub was now able to send children to school there.
Today (as of July 2019) Groot Aub is mainly inhabited by small farmers and pensioners .
Land ownership
Most of the land on which Groot Aub was built and its surrounding areas are still state-owned.
In recent years, especially since 2004, Groot Aub has increasingly become a target of Namibian land resettlement policy , which means that the government is striving to increasingly settle landless citizens there and provide them with land. In this regard, there have been serious disputes and court cases in the recent past because the people living in Groot Aub are reluctant to see the government aiming at a redistribution of the local land in order to be able to offer newcomers from Windhoek and Rehoboth a livelihood in Groot Aub. The population, who have been living in Groot Aub for decades, is now increasingly afraid of losing all or part of their agricultural land, as the official right to use these land remains with the government in most cases.
Sections of the political opposition in Namibia, especially the Congress of Democrats (CoD), strongly condemn the government's approach to the Groot-Aub question. In this regard, CoD described it as scandalous how poor people who live only around 50 km from the country's seat of government and for whom access to arable land is vital, would be so ignored by their own government.
Groot Aub came into the Namibian media again in 2012, when residents again vehemently and publicly complained that land would continue to be awarded to non-residents, although land in and around Groot Aub is still officially awarded due to the still unclear legal situation should rest. A few months earlier it became known that numerous foreigners were still settling in and around Groot Aub based on an extremely dubious legal situation. In this context, the Windhoek district council member Frederick Arie and the SWAPO party's executive , Fanie van Wyk , who was responsible for Groot Aub , were accused of having secretly awarded various lands. However, such accusations have been made since 2010 and are apparently only now generating broad media coverage. In light of the allegations, the accused Arie accuses the local traditional leaders of arbitrarily giving land to non-residents. Furthermore, the governor of Khomas, Samuel Nuuyoma , is accused by the residents of Groot Aub of consistently withholding relevant information regarding the allocation of land in and around the village. With regard to these allegations, the government of the Khomas region announced that it would re-examine the circumstances and, according to the legal situation, remove illegally constructed buildings and any other structures of this kind with the help of the police, if necessary.
Individual evidence
- ^ Groot Aub incorporated into Windhoek. The Namibian, September 11, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d e f National informal settlement profiles ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 758 kB) 2007 (English)
- ↑ Namibian Sun: Groot Aub needs urgent Government attention 2011 (English)
- ↑ a b c The Namibian: Groot Aub land dispute at Camp Five rages on 2011 (English)
- ↑ a b c The Namibian: Evictions due to resettlement at Groot Aub appealed 2011 (English)
- ↑ a b c d e The Namibian: Govt created Groot Aub squatter problem - CoD ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) 2011 (English)
- ↑ a b c Namibian Sun: Bitter complaints trigger Groot Aub property freeze ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2011 (english)
- ↑ The Namibian: Groot Aub land allegedly still allocated ( Memento from February 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) 2012 (English)
Coordinates: 22 ° 57 ′ S , 17 ° 12 ′ E