Stefanus Nashama The United Peoples Movement (UPM) has expressed its disappointment with the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) for not paying the enumeration workers, who participated in the fieldwork of the 2023 Population and Housing Census. Expressing the concern last week, the party leader Jan van Wyk, stated that it is unbelievable that the agency would...
President Hage Geingob has appealed to citizens to cooperate with the Census enumerators and provide accurate data for national development purposes. Dr. Geingob said this as the management of the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA), led by Board Chairperson Salomo Hei and Statistician-General Alex Shimuafeni, visited their residence to enumerate the first family in Windhoek. President...
Staff Reporter THE Namibia Agriculture Union (NAU) has called upon its members to collaborate with the Population and Housing Census enumerators and also condemned the harassment of enumerators by farmers. Photo for illustrative purposes. This comes after several videos made the rounds online, showing the harassment of enumerators by some farmers. Tanja Daahl, the spokesperson...
Landless People’s Movement (LPM) MP Henny Seibeb has voiced his concerns regarding the safety of census enumerators. This comes in the wake of videos circulating where commercial farmers reportedly harassed and threatened the enumerators. Seibeb has questioned whether the Namibian Defence Force should not be deployed to ensure the safety of the enumerators. In response...
Some residents who reside in the Windhoek Rural Constituency have threatened to unleash dogs on Census enumerators who do not speak the indigenous languages of the people in those areas. Windhoek Rural Constituency Councillor, Piet Adams, called a press conference today where he, together with those who did not make the cut, decried the selection...