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Recognition of ancestral land claims for indigenous peoples and marginalised communities in Namibia: a case study of the Hai||om litigation

Recognition of ancestral land claims for indigenous peoples and marginalised communities in Namibia: a case study of the Hai||om litigation
Recognition of ancestral land claims for indigenous peoples and marginalised communities in Namibia: a case study of the Hai||om litigation
The chapter concerns the specific context of the Namibian case of the Hai||om peoples’ recent court battles seeking a legal remedy for the dispossession of their ancestral land that took place in the 1950s. The chapter demonstrates how bringing ancestral land rights claims in front of a court of law can be a means to enforce the rights of indigenous peoples and shed light on the different issues these communities face after being removed from their ancestral lands.
121-143
Legal Assistance Centre
Odendaal, Willem
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Gilbert, Jérémie
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Vermeylen, Saskia
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Odendaal, W.
Werner, W.
Odendaal, Willem
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Gilbert, Jérémie
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Werner, W.

Odendaal, Willem, Gilbert, Jérémie and Vermeylen, Saskia (2020) Recognition of ancestral land claims for indigenous peoples and marginalised communities in Namibia: a case study of the Hai||om litigation. In, Odendaal, W. and Werner, W. (eds.) ‘Neither here nor there’: Indigeneity, marginalisation and land rights in post-independence Namibia. Legal Assistance Centre, pp. 121-143.

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Abstract

The chapter concerns the specific context of the Namibian case of the Hai||om peoples’ recent court battles seeking a legal remedy for the dispossession of their ancestral land that took place in the 1950s. The chapter demonstrates how bringing ancestral land rights claims in front of a court of law can be a means to enforce the rights of indigenous peoples and shed light on the different issues these communities face after being removed from their ancestral lands.

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Published date: 21 April 2020

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Local EPrints ID: 507401
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/507401
PURE UUID: b9cb4e84-2372-4ce4-b32c-f3d0a2fcf297
ORCID for Jérémie Gilbert: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1377-3494

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Date deposited: 09 Dec 2025 17:31
Last modified: 13 Dec 2025 03:08

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Author: Willem Odendaal
Author: Jérémie Gilbert ORCID iD
Author: Saskia Vermeylen
Editor: W. Odendaal
Editor: W. Werner

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