BLACK and white Namibian farmers joined forces on Monday to put pressure on the government to speed up land reform to avoid Zimbabwe-style farm invasions, The Namibian reported on Tuesday. “Although many of our people … need land to improve their living conditions, political anarchy, violence, land-grabbing and farm invasions and mismanagement should be avoided at all costs,” Moses Katjiuongua said at the launch of a farmers’ group called Beyond 2000 Movement. Although Namibia has suffered no farm invasions, farmers fear landless people will soon grow impatient with the slow pace of reform. Namibia has 4_045 commercial farms. About 30,5-million hectares of land is owned by white farmers and only 2,2-million hectares by black farmers. – IRIN