The Namibian government is preparing for the repatriation of a group of Batswana of Namibian descent.

The group will be received at Gam.

The returnees are those whose forefathers fled to Botswana during the German era.

The government, through the National Youth Service (NYS), has been hard at work preparing a 21-hectare piece of land in Gam for the returning families to settle on.

The team on site is still waiting on the arrival of gravel stones for making concrete before the rest of the fencing poles will be erected.

Three boreholes are being drilled at Otjiipaheua, some 100 kilometres away from where the returnees are to be resettled.

That will serve as the site for the cattle to graze and drink water.

The Minister of Health and Social Services confirmed that a mobile clinic would also be set up there.

The governments of Namibia and Botswana have not yet pronounced themselves on the set date for repatriation.

The old returnees have their Namibian identity documents with them, and the same will apply for those expected to return in the weeks to come.