Another group of landless residents at Walvis Bay have expressed frustration to the council over the slow pace of delivering serviced plots to them.

The group called "Tulipamwe" marched to the municipality and handed over a petition demanding council to give residents plots at Farm 37, an area about 10 kilometers from the town. 

Members of the Tulipamwe group say they are low-income earners who rent backyard shacks in the harbor town.

Plagued by shack fires and poor sanitation, the residents say they have been applying for land since 2016 and promises from politicians have not been realized.

The residents handed over their voter cards to the mayor and told him that they will not vote if each one of them is not allocated a plot at Farm 37.

Walvis Bay Mayor Trevino Forbes received the petition and noted that handing over petitions to demand land has become a culture in Walvis Bay. 

As a result, there are now various lists of names of landless residents. 

He indicated that the council will start a registration process of all landless residents at the town in April and that list will be used to allocate erven to the residents at Farm 37.

"Farm 37 does not have everything. It does not have all the necessary infrastructure, but we have seen that the people of Walvis Bay are tired of living in backyard shacks. We have seen that people want their own place. So we have decided that as a council of Walvis to make Farm 37 available for everyone, not just a certain group. We are not forcing anybody to go to Farm 37, you will go there, you will see what is there.