Affirmative Repositioning (AR) leader Job Amupanda is seeking a court order giving the government 90 days to remove the veterinary cordon fence (redline).
He announced this during a media briefing at the AR’s headquarters in Windhoek on Wednesday.
“The redline needs to go. It does not protect any interest of black Namibians,” he said.
According to Amupanda, the government should allow people to bring meat from the northern side of the redline.
“Why should you control what I eat? How can I slaughter a goat at Omaalala and eat the meat there but I can’t bring it for my family in Windhoek?”
Amupanda said the recent call from the government to gradually remove the redline is merely an election gimmick.
He rubbished the need for a two-year feasibility study on the matter and pointed out that one was carried out already in 2014.
Amupanda and the state are due to meet in court on Thursday over the redline issue.
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