would be redistributed from <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whites_in_Namibia" title="Whites in Namibia" class="mw-redirect">whites</a> to blacks. Some 12% of the total commercial farmland in the country was taken away from white farmers and given to black citizens by 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span>[</span>5<span>]</span></a></sup> However, according to a 1998 statement made by the Cabinet of Namibia "the agricultural base is too weak to offer a sustainable basis f