Ministry of Land Reform (Namibia)

The Ministry of Land Reform was a government ministry of Namibia, with headquarters in Windhoek. It was created at Namibian independence in 1990 as Ministry of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation,^[1] renamed Ministry of Lands and Resettlement in 2005, and got its last name change in 2015. In 2020 the ministry was disestablished, and the portfolio of land reform was given to the agriculture ministry.

The first Namibian land reform minister was Marco Hausiku.^[2] The current^[update] minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform is Calle Schlettwein.^[3]

Ministers

All land reform ministers in chronological order are:^[1]

#	Picture	Name	(Birth–Death)	Party	Term start	Term end
Minister of Lands, Resettlement and Rehabilitation
01		Marco Hausiku	1953–2021	SWAPO	1990	1992
02		Richard Kapelwa Kabajani	1943–2007	SWAPO	1992	1996
03		Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana	1952–	SWAPO	1996	2002
04		Hifikepunye Pohamba	1935–	SWAPO	2002	2005
Minister of Lands and Resettlement
05		Jerry Ekandjo	1947–	SWAPO	2005	2008
06		Alpheus ǃNaruseb	1954–	SWAPO	2008	2015
Minister of Land Reform
07		Utoni Nujoma	1952–	SWAPO	2015	2020
Minister of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform
08		Calle Schlettwein	1954–	SWAPO	2020

This list is complete and up to date as of April 2022.

See also

• Land reform in Namibia