Groot Aub

Groot Aub is a small informal settlement in Namibia with about 550 inhabitants (2007 ). Groot Aub is in the Hardap region.

Infrastructure

Groot Aub is at about halfway between Windhoek and Rehoboth, Windhoek where approximately 51 km to the south is located about 56 km north and Rehoboth. Groot Aub itself lies off the north - south route B1. None of the roads in Groot Aub is asphalted until today. Most of the houses in Groot Aub are built with very simple means, so Groot Aub can be considered essentially as a shack settlement, comparable to the Windhoek district Hakahana.

Most households have neither running water nor have their own toilets. However, electricity is provided in most cases.

In Groot Aub there is a police station, a hospital and one primary and one comprehensive school. But there is neither a garbage disposal still appreciable shopping.

History

This village was created in the 1960s.

Most settlers who have already settled in Groot Aub at this time, this came from the surrounding farms, as in Groot Aub from now consisted in the possibility of the children to send to school there.

Today Groot Aub is inhabited mainly by small farmers and pensioners.

Others

The land on which Groot Aub was taken, and its surrounding areas are still largely state-owned.

In recent years, especially since 2004, Groot Aub has increasingly become a target of the Namibian land resettlement policy, which means that the government seeks to landless citizens increased to resettle and provide them with lands there. In this respect, it was in the recent past over and over again to serious disputes and litigation because it goes against the resident in Groot Aub population that the government is aiming for a redistribution of the local lands to offer newcomers from Windhoek and Rehoboth in Groot Aub a livelihood can. The for decades based in Groot Aub population fears now increasingly losing their agricultural land use in whole or in part, as the official right of use over these surfaces in most cases is still with the government.

Parts of the political opposition in Namibia, but especially the Congress of Democrats (CoD ), the government's action in the Groot- Aub - question strongly condemn. CoD described it in this regard as scandalous as poor people who would live just about 50 km from the seat of government of the country and for the access to agricultural land is essential for survival, would be ignored by their own government so.

2012 came Groot Aub again in the Namibian media, when residents again vehemently and publicly about it complained that continues lands local residents would be awarded, although the allocation of lands in and around Groot Aub due to the still unresolved legal officially still should rest. A few months ago it was announced that continue to numerous Foreign expressed on a dubious legal basis to settle in and around Groot Aub. In this context, currently the Windhoek district councilor Frederick Arie as well as in charge of Groot Aub Board of SWAPO, Fanie van Wyk, accused of having awarded various lands under the hand. Such accusations, however, were already expressed since 2010 and only now seems to produce a wide media coverage. Given the accusations raises the accused Frederick aria from the local traditional leaders to have arbitrarily assigned lands to strangers. Further, the Governor of Khomas, Samuel Nuuyoma, accused by the inhabitants of Groot Aub, in and around the town consistently withhold relevant information concerning the award of lands. With respect to these allegations, the Government of the Khomas Region announced to examine the conditions again and if necessary to remove illegally built according to legal buildings and any other structures of this type with police assistance.

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• Location in Namibia
• Hardap
• Place in Africa