Author: Steven Klukowski (Steven Klukowski )

The Swapo party says it will continue to represent the people of the //Kharas region irrespective of their political affiliation or traditional affiliation.

Daniel Apollus, a pensioner residing in Klein Vaalgras, said it is challenging for him to collect water at a point far from his home due to his deteriorating health and lack of resources.

Residents of the southern village of Vaalgras in the //Kharas region are split on the question of whether a possible oil discovery in the area would benefit the community.

Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi said when the party promised voters to withdraw councillors who are not performing or living up to their mandate, it meant exactly that, in the literal sense of the word.

Despite NamWater releasing 400 cubic metres of water per second last weekend from the Naute Dam outside Keetmanshoop, catchment areas further down south has not been affected yet.

KEETMANSHOOP – Tributes poured in yesterday for the late Keetmanshoop Urban constituency councillor Maxie Minnaar who died on Monday in a Windhoek hospital. She was 47.  Both political and administrative leaders from the south hailed Minnaar as a passionate and hardworking person. Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi described Minnaar as a modern-day revolutionary and...

KEETMANSHOOP – //Kharas regional Swapo coordinator Mattheus Mumbala has called on party members to accept their fate if not elected to stand as candidates for the upcoming regional council and local authority elections. Namibians will go to the polls in November this year to elect new local authority and regional councillors. “This is the year...

KEETMANSHOOP – The Keetmanshoop police station in town has been temporarily closed for 48 hours since Tuesday afternoon following the visit of a positive tested Covid-19 public member at the facility. According to the //Kharas regional commander, Commissioner David Indongo, the person has been admitted at the Keetmanshoop hospital after presenting symptoms of the coronavirus. “He...

KEETMANSHOOP – Government has ordered an investigation into the abandoned Fonteintjie fish farm project in the //Kharas region, which was supposed to be completed more than three years ago.  Works minister John Mutorwa, who was part of a high-level government delegation that visited the project recently, said it was regrettable that authorities now have to...