The judiciary says it won’t get involved in informal discussions on presidential succession. The Office of the Judiciary has issued a statement regarding the ongoing public discourse on the presidential succession following the passing of President Dr. Hage G. Geingob. There have been ongoing mixed or diverse views by legal personalities and the public general...
The Rundu Town Council is finally taking action to improve the status of the Tumweneni informal settlement. The action comes after a directive from the Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Erastus Uutoni, in August 2022 to formalise Tumweneni. Tumweneni came into existence in 2018 through illegal land grabbing. Upon his visit to the informal...
Outapi Town Council has upgraded its five informal settlements and has lined up development projects this year. The Council will construct phase one of the water reticulation infrastructure at Outapi-extension-18, at a cost of N$1.1 million, and provide water at extension-13, costing another N$1 million. Outapi Chief Executive Officer Nashilongo Ananias, in an interview with...
The Gobabis Municipality has embarked on a land surveying process at Kanaan Informal Settlement, aimed at developing the settlement and ensuring the delivery of long-awaited services, from title deeds to water and electricity. The process will see all 4,500 registered plots at the settlement demarcated. This was revealed by the town’s mayor, Melba Tjozongoro, in...
The popular PSTBET Samora Machel League, catering to 20 teams in the informal settlements of the capital, recently concluded its activities for the year with an awards ceremony. The event aimed to recognize outstanding performances throughout the season and honour those who excelled in the league. League officials and sponsors spoke highly of the transformative...
WINDHOEK, Dec. 5 — Portifar Clemes, 16, wields a paintbrush, delicately crafting a sunflower onto the corrugated iron structure at Okahandja Park, one of the oldest and most populated informal settlements on the periphery of Namibia’s capital, Windhoek. Despite being new to using a paintbrush, Clemes aspires to transform the desolate shanty town into a...
