NAMIBIAN Land Minister Pendukeni Ithana has left for Germany and Austria to enlist the help of those countries in Namibia’s land reform programme, state radio reported. Her departure coincided with a statement by Prime Minister Hage Geingob that Namibia would let foreign countries intervene in its land reform programme rather than face a land crisis like the one in Zimbabwe. Namibia’s land reform program is currently aimed at procuring land mainly from absentee foreign landowners, many of whom are Germans and Austrians who have large farms in the former German colony for recreational purposes. – AFP