ǃNamiǂNûs Constituency Councillor Suzan Ndjaleka says her office has embarked on an initiative to regularise undocumented long-term residents of Luderitz.

Ndjaleka has identified five stateless residents in Luderitz who were born in South Africa and have been living in the southern coastal town for over forty years.

Because of this, undocumented people, mostly the elderly, do not benefit from the government's social grants.

Ndjaleka says she met with a delegation from the Northern Cape Province in South Africa on the sidelines of the Luderitz Crayfish Festival in efforts to create a legal pathway for the affected residents to get citizenship.

"The ||Kharas Region has a twinning agreement with the Northern Cape, and we were able to share notes on a specific matter, which is a concern for Luderitz but also maybe across the country. We have undocumented citizens—people who have lived in Luderitz for over 40 years but were born in South Africa and struggled to get documentation. We were able to extend our notes, and we are certainly sure that through our twinning agreement, we were able to address those matters."

The Director General of the Office of the Northern Cape Province Premier, Justice Bekebeke, confirmed a meeting with the regional constituency councillor on the matter.